Chapter 222: {Stellar Spark}! Shadowless Thorn! This is me

Although the mid lane laning was extremely painful.

Yagao, who valued the team, still gritted his teeth and endured without opening his mouth to ask for help, preparing to resist on his own.

And Wei had also clearly started planning his jungle path.

Due to the loss of defense in the top half at level one, unable to determine whether there was vision in his own top jungle, he simply didn't hide it and called the bottom lane duo to perform a double-fast leash.

"You guys help me hit it a few more times, then Bin and Gao, you two can let the wave later, Bin, learn E at level two and watch me..."

Wei's style of jungling over the past two years has actually belonged to {map control functionality}.

Although he wasn't unable to play jungle carries in the first two games, it really felt like something was wrong everywhere, full of strange flavors.

Getting Sejuani this game, he immediately felt his thoughts become much clearer.

His consideration this time was also very clear.

If Kindred was starting in his top half, it must be a solo start, then Wei could use the speed difference of the bottom lane duo helping to catch up with Kindred before Kindred reached level three, and cooperate with top and mid teammates to complete the encirclement!

Although neither top nor mid had lane priority in the early game.

But here, there was a subtle time difference.

At the time point when the jungler chooses to solo jungle to level 3, the solo lanes mid and top not only have level 2, but are also facing the third minion wave.

In this short ten seconds of laning time, the advantage of lane priority would be infinitely reduced.

And this was still BLG's own jungle; Camille and Zoe were also heroes who could support the jungle well in the early game!

Taking a step back, if Kindred only did a blue buff and the subsequent route back to his own red area to farm was obvious—and because Kindred needs to go back and forth to the jungle, Sejuani would also have a small gank vacuum period where she could reach level three first!

Wei, full of confidence, fast-farmed the bottom half to level three, then headed to his own top half.

On the way, Kindred's second active mark was also given to Sejuani.

This didn't cause Wei any nervousness.

Even if he never played Kindred, he certainly knew some of Kindred's little habits.

Except for the mark at the start, Kindred's marks during "free time" are generally hung on the opposing jungler, which also fits the idea that Kindred would fight 1v1 in the jungle this game.

After all, if it's hung on a lane, that lane will naturally be on guard.

Of course.

There was a third possibility, which was that Kindred honestly went back to his own jungle to farm, which was also the safest way for Kindred.

After all, V5's mid and top could take lane priority in the early game; as long as Kindred farmed normally, the jungle invasions after entering the normal rhythm would reach a comfort zone.

Sejuani walked into his own blue area and, sure enough, found the jungle area completely intact.

Wei was slightly disappointed, but continued to execute his deployment, took a look at the top and mid minion waves, and started farming the wolves...

"Bin, I'm coming!"

After finishing the blue buff, Sejuani immediately set off to detour, wanting to sneak to the top lane from behind the minion wave!

The so-called "Variation":

Actually, it is to suddenly change the next behavior in the conventional route of normal situations.

To catch the opponent off guard!

The most basic ones, for example, suddenly running to gank when you should be farming, suddenly running to gank when you should be recalling...

And Wei's variation with Sejuani this time was considered very successful.

If Kindred started in the top half, he would definitely be in the bottom half by now.

And if he started in the bottom half, there would be no reason not to finish farming the Krugs when he reached the top lane, letting his jungle area complete a full cycle.

This grasp, besides Kindred being a jungle carry that relies much more on growth than Sejuani.

More importantly, everyone knew that Camille would be even more cowardly without flash, and it wouldn't be easy for Kindred to find an opportunity, and he might even waste his own time.

Xun was indeed doing exactly that.

After finishing the red buff, he took a look at the top and mid minion waves and headed to start farming the Krugs...

But immediately after.

Xun, who glanced at the mini-map, suddenly had a flash in his eyes.

"Hey, this Sejuani..."

"That's not right, he should be crouching behind mid or top! Master Ye, Brother Shengqiang, be careful!"

What Xun saw was the "Kindred's Mark" that refreshed on the {Gromp} camp in the opponent's blue area.

A small detail here is something that only players who play Kindred often might discover.

In fact.

Kindred's first mark refresh time is not 3 minutes and 30 seconds, which is when the Scuttle Crab is born.

But 3 minutes and 20 seconds.

The reason it is considered 3 minutes and 30 seconds is because {the first mark will only refresh on the Scuttle Crab}, so the mark that appears ahead of time will only appear at 3 minutes and 30 seconds.

But Kindred got a kill at the start of this game!

The rules of the mark were changed.

That is to say.

If the Gromp and F6 in the opponent's jungle are still there, then at 3 minutes and 20 seconds, the mark will 100% definitely refresh on these two jungle monsters!

But it just so happens that at 3 minutes and 20 seconds, even if you solo farm the jungle, you would definitely have cleared all the jungle monsters, let alone Sejuani, who obviously had the bottom lane duo helping to farm.

Marks will not refresh on dead jungle monsters.

Normal people might not notice the 10-second time difference.

But Xun, as a Kindred specialist, keenly used this point to instantly infer Sejuani's movements!

Brother Shengqiang was actually really prepared to use his skills to push the wave quickly—because the refresh time of the Scuttle Crab is the time when teammates need to take lane priority and cooperate with Kindred to compete for the jungle.

Which is the gap Wei wanted to seize!

"It doesn't look like he's in mid," Ye Bo made a judgment based on the subtle details of Zoe's positioning.

He knew Zoe's operational habits too well.

The opponent's positioning didn't even give a chance to flash and E, so Sejuani couldn't complete the cooperation at all.

"OK, then Brother Shengqiang, sell yourself a little, I'm coming!"

Xun trusted the judgment of his mid-lane big brother extremely.

Even though he saw the opposing top laner's positioning was extremely cowardly, he immediately stopped farming the Krugs he was halfway through and walked toward the top lane without any hesitation.

And Wei, who was behind, looked at the mark in his own jungle—and became even more convinced that there was no reason for this Renekton not to come up and fast-push the wave!

Sure enough.

Brother Shengqiang started to aggressively move forward and pulled out a red-fury Q in the minion pile.

"Come, come, come!"

Renekton would definitely not use E to push the wave; giving up his position is an opportunity!

Sejuani directly crashed out from the second brush at close range and then whipped to slow him down!

Renekton retreated half a step and then used a reverse double E to pull away.

Just now, it seemed like Renekton wasted a red-fury Q for nothing.

But in fact, it was Brother Shengqiang's extremely clear-headed handling.

He used the fury in advance to restore his state and sell blood, so he could use the "white fury" state to use double E, not wasting fury on the displacement E.

At the same time, he could use the two-stage white E to quickly accumulate fury again!

Camille sucked onto the wall at the furthest distance and even detailedly sucked on the wall for an extra 0.5 seconds to see if Renekton would flash, and only then kicked out specifically toward the position behind him.

Renekton already had two layers of Sejuani's freezing effect on him; even if he used flash to dodge this flying kick, Camille could use W's outer circle to slow him down, and then step forward to AQ to forcibly trigger Sejuani's freezing effect...

However, Camille had just landed.

When she saw Kindred walking out from around the corner!

Renekton had already accumulated a second red fury with his detailed double white E, and AW fiercely swung his half-moon axe to pin her down!

Sejuani naturally couldn't sell out his opponent; the pig-foot combination exerted force and quickly triggered the double freezing effect.

But Camille, after all, had no flash, and her initial position was extremely awkward, unable to pull out of the focus-fire range.

Under the focus fire of the V5 top-jungle duo, her health dropped rapidly!

"Renekton's body is still harder than Camille's! In a wave of top-jungle fighting, Camille falls first!"

"However, Renekton's health is also not very healthy; this wave is just ending here... hmm?"

"The V5 top-jungle duo seems to still want to chase!"

Xun originally just wanted to rely on the red buff's slow to chase and auto-attack a few more times after Sejuani flashed to hit his health, so that he could consider continuing the invasion.

But Brother Shengqiang saw the Kindred's Mark on top of Sejuani's head.

He immediately shouted actively in the voice chat: "I can help you hard-trade!"

The two continued to pursue; when they chased to the tower, Sejuani had less than three hundred health, and Renekton directly flashed AQ to help make up the damage, while also taking the defense tower's aggro for Kindred!

"Hard kill! V5 top-jungle still wants to hard kill!"

"My goodness, Brother Shengqiang! He is sacrificing himself, it's exactly the same as Deft in the last game! These two veterans are too team-oriented!"

"Kindred's arrow hit, Sejuani completed the trade with Renekton under the tower while Kindred gained his second mark!"

"This is V5's teamwork!"

The harvest was actually more than that.

If Brother Shengqiang hadn't used himself to trade, even if Kindred could kill Sejuani, his own state would become very low, and he might even be traded back.

And Camille respawned and TP'd out—the Gromp's mark could still be defended.

But now.

Because Renekton took the damage the whole time, Kindred's state was still very good, and he had the double buff blessing.

The jungler died, and Camille alone had no way to defend the jungle!

It meant that in less than 4 minutes.

Kindred would get his third mark.

Xun was so moved he almost wanted to cry: "Brother Qiang! If I don't carry this game, I'm a dog!"

"You brat, you still want to be a dog, Grandpa?" Brother Shengqiang teased.

"Don't say that, I can really be Uzi this game! I'll have at least 6 marks by 10 minutes, the opponent's composition can't hold me at all!"

"Why six layers?"

Beryl asked inexplicably at this time: "Because, five words are not enough?"

"WTF! Yuanshen-ge, why is the second half of your accent so standard!?"

The V5 voice chat was full of a happy atmosphere.

And what Xun meant was actually that Kindred's marks can expand to all jungle monsters except {epic jungle monsters} starting from the 4th layer.

Kindred is like this; the lower the mark layer, the easier it is for the opponent to block, even for layers 1-3, you only need to defend against F6 and Gromp.

But once the layers come up, the opportunities to get jungle marks increase.

The opponent can't gather troops to control it every wave!

At this time, the marks Kindred can counter-jungle will be all over the map; as long as the subsequent jungle invasion is smooth, the speed of mark acquisition will be unstoppable!

And.

Actually, Renekton's death in this wave still had a "hidden" value!

Ye Bo accelerated the wave-pushing rhythm in mid, while keeping an eye on the bottom right corner of the screen, the avatar icon of the fallen.

Kindred was definitely in his own jungle, and the jungler had already died, so Yagao naturally had to completely give up competing for lane priority, letting the opponent push the minion wave.

However, as soon as Neeko disappeared, he immediately reported the miss.

"Be careful of Neeko, she might have recalled, or she might have gone bottom."

The BLG bottom lane duo saw the opposing jungler in the top half and was currently passionately laning, constantly fighting for lane priority with Caitlyn.

Ezreal and Rakan still had a say in pushing efficiency in the early game, and Bard wasn't considered a laning support, so the minion waves of both sides were constantly deadlocked.

Elk and ON didn't want to give up the minion wave advantage just because of the mid-lane miss, calculated in their hearts, and decided to push the last few minions in front of them.

This wave really couldn't be called "lacking discipline."

Under normal circumstances, when there are no extra movement speed items including {boots} in the early game, it takes at least 15-18 seconds to walk from mid to bottom.

The two of them clearing the remaining few minions would take at most ten seconds, so there was no reason for there to be danger.

But...

Just 7 seconds after the mid-lane miss was reported.

A yellow-skinned Renekton with golden light wheels flashing continuously under his feet appeared on the screen with an "ununderstandable speed" and rushed toward the bottom lane arrogantly!

"??????"

"What the hell is this?!"

Neeko in the current version, after transforming into a hero, not only retains the hero's basic attributes such as attack range—but also gains the {attack speed} and {movement speed} of that hero at "that moment"!

And the early game respawn {Homeguard} rushing mechanism added in S10 makes the movement speed of a just-respawned Renekton a terrifying 600+.

For Neeko, this is still a 600+ that won't "decay"!

From the moment Neeko disappeared, it only took a mere 7 seconds for her to rush from mid to bottom!

Of course, because Neeko's passive transformation in the current version is too weak, as long as she takes any hero damage, the transformation effect will be instantly broken.

So this little trick generally doesn't have much use...

But it just so happened that the "roaming" at this time played a big role!

Ezreal turned his head and shot a Mystic Shot, wanting to interrupt the opponent's transformation.

But Neeko relied on the movement speed with wind under her feet to forcibly turn her head and dodge!

Ezreal could only hurriedly Arcane Shift away.

Rakan, who had no flash, because the opponent wasn't Xayah and his E skill distance was limited, could only hurriedly E to follow and fly up.

But Bard seized this opportunity.

Just as Rakan flew up, Beryl aimed a Q-flash at Ezreal's direction!

Ezreal, holding Cleanse, wasn't panicked and instantly solved it—but Rakan was pinned in place as if by a long-distance strike.

Caitlyn E-displaced closer, extremely skillfully followed up with a trap, waited for Neeko to approach with extreme speed, and followed up with a Tangle-Barbs control again!

"Ah, can this even be ganked!?"

"V5's seemingly forced mid-lane gank actually really forcibly caught BLG's bottom lane!"

"Rakan fell first, and Ezreal couldn't possibly dare to defend the tower! And they can even eat plating!"

"Master Ye is really a research master! Such a niche hero as Neeko was actually played by him to have flowers!"

{Brother Kai, I clicked. }

{Is this not reporting miss, or reporting it and not leaving, is it mid-division or bottom-division, come out and admit it yourself! }

{Such a classic discipline problem, my evaluation is that everyone should be flown away, not one is clean! }

{Gao Gao, just go home and be your "AAA Esports Hotel Zeng-ge", don't pit my Bin! }

{Huo huo, that's too pitting for Bin, the trump card Camille died twice in 4 minutes, it really is bottom and pants. }

{Old Ye has no hair, he never lies! This game really brought my Bin back to reality 0.0}

{I really like a sentence from Song Bin: "My Jax! K'Sante! Camille! I can win the game if I pick them!"}

After Neeko helped the bottom lane gank, she didn't share the bottom lane's plating, but instead let Bard and Caitlyn eat the money together, and she TP'd back to the mid lane after recalling.

Both bottom lanes recalled together, and Bard bought Boots of Mobility.

Rakan also bought boots.

Clearly, the time of the first recall for these two supports, whether it's the player or the hero, is unlikely not to do something.

And both of their choices were the top half!

Mainly, Yagao was suppressed by nearly 20 CS in 5 minutes, only relying on the Paddle Star with a far radiation range to find opportunities, plus having flash, it was indeed not easy to gank.

Instead, neither top laner had flash, and both were easy to cooperate with teammates.

After Zoe reached level six, she could be considered to have operational capital; as long as R is always placed later, theoretically Neeko's E is unlikely to hit the opponent, so naturally, it's unlikely that a kill will occur.

Of course, Zoe also almost never initiates with R because of this.

Otherwise, what awaits him is the Tangle-Barbs that "presses on the rise"!

And Yagao discovered that his Paddle Star's hit rate was very low, so he simply specialized in pulling and smashing the minion pile, thereby surviving the laning—but the landing point of the Paddle Star cannot exceed 750 yards from Zoe's main body.

Neeko's Q is 800 yards.

Ye Bo's grasp of the distance of pulling the Paddle Star is simply at the level of using the naked eye as a caliper to measure, and he can add a Q smash every time the opponent pulls the Paddle Star to smash.

It can be completely said that "his eyes are the ruler"!

This led to the eternal failure of mid-lane health trading.

However, Neeko leveled up to level six and immediately started walking toward the top half again.

It was clear that she was going to the top half where the flames of war were about to break out!

Yagao, who also leveled up to six, hurriedly followed, but saw Neeko suddenly transform into the "floating posture" Bard, and her movement speed became extremely fast again!

The reason why she had to give Bard money to make Boots of Mobility in the last wave.

It was not only for Bard's roaming this wave, but also to provide Neeko with a {movement speed transformer}!

And when Bard picks up passive notes to get an explosive movement speed bonus and then transforms, combined with Boots of Mobility, the movement speed can also break through to 500+!

"Neeko is going top! Neeko is going top!"

Yagao, seeing Neeko whom he couldn't catch up with at all, could only shout urgently.

However, at this time, BLG's fighting gene began to exert itself again.

Seeing Neeko walking up from the river, and looking at the positions of both sides—it seemed there was a possibility of being "counter-encircled"!

"We can find Neeko first!"

The three top-jungle-support members crouching in the back of BLG didn't pretend anymore, directly walked out of the brush, and encircled the river.

On the other side of the brush, the V5 jungle-support also walked out!

For a time, there were six people in the top lane minion wave, all rushing to the river.

"I can E to force his skills first!" Yagao shouted.

Zoe, seeing that three teammates had entered the river, prepared to R-flash to force a move.

But Neeko directly split in place, summoning the Shapesplitter Bard clone to follow behind her.

Yagao was desperately looking for a gap to throw E... but he really couldn't find one for a moment!

Because that clone was actually twisting around in place too!

The key is that the "clone" movement speed is also super fast!

The movement speed difference between the two sides is very large, and if Zoe stays for a while longer, the distance will be completely pulled away, and then there will be no chance even if he flashes RE.

Yagao urgently made a move, R-flash E two-stage jump displacement to find a side angle, and threw out the Sleepy Trouble Bubble!

But Ye Bo, skillfully using his split-second control of the summoned object, as if he had guessed the opponent's jump path, used his back to "lead" the twisting clone to block the bubble!

"I'll crash into Neeko!" Sejuani's finger was already on the Q key.

However, the next moment.

The opposing Neeko made the first move, an E-flash across the dragon pit upward!

But the first-moment picture made everyone on BLG stunned for a moment.

What does that mean?

This Neeko E-flash, the thorns actually flew out from the original place before the flash, and looking at the flight distance, it was definitely not enough to hit.

It looked like the E-flash was pressed slowly?

The fact was exactly the opposite.

It was because the E-flash was pressed "too fast," causing the skill animation to shift.

That is, the next instant after the three BLG members were stunned.

The 【Tangle-Barbs】 that had clearly disappeared halfway through, actually seemed to "cross the air" forward, forcibly hitting all three!

{Shadowless Thorn}!

The enhanced control effect of the level one Tangle-Barbs lasted for a terrifying 2 seconds, and Neeko walked up to use the edge range ultimate 【Pop Blossom】 to rise and sit down!

"Is this Neeko's shuttle flash? So strange!"

"Neeko opened up three people! Except for Rakan in the front, Sejuani and Camille both took the full control chain and couldn't move!"

"ON still wanted to get close to interrupt Neeko's approach, but Neeko's edge successfully sat up two people, and the three behind followed up with output; it seems like even Rakan himself can't run away!"

"It's broken! BLG looks like they're going to explode again!"

Liking to fight, when the players are in good condition, they might be able to rely on this to play all kinds of unscientific miracle team fights.

But mindless fighting, especially when the players' condition is problematic.

Then it will only accelerate the death of the game!

The two people in the back of BLG almost didn't move the whole time, and together with Rakan who rushed to the face, they fell, and the score had reached 1-7!

Strictly speaking, it was even more miserable than the last game!

What was even more desperate was that another piece of bad news came from the bottom lane.

"My goodness, the bottom lane actually solo-killed! Deft!!"

The director cut out the replay.

It turned out that Elk took the initiative to seek battle, hung W across the minions and E-approached the face, wanting to show off!

And Deft's operation was outstandingly simple and unadorned.

He just used E to steadily pull away a body distance, then while using exquisite walk-attack to point the opponent to death one by one, then twisted his body to flash over a key Q.

It looked simple, but it was exactly highlighting Deft's playing style.

It's just stability, calmness in the face of danger, and incomparably solid basic skills!

{Brother, are we playing against bots? I want to report that someone is bullying noobs! }

{I really want to report! Ye Wen used a moving block this time, foul! }

{Bin is Bin, he already has the temperament of a legendary top laner, look at how skilled he is in developing the i-series and o-series! }

{Is this our little King? It's really funny, it's just luck in the bottom half, purely stealing our WBG full-god team's spot! }

{Banlangen! Billed dog! Biluochun! Come out!!! }

A collapse of three lanes.

The mentality of the BLG members, which was already not very good this game, was made worse, and everyone's operations were approaching deformation, clearly a problem with their mentality.

It even felt a bit like they wanted to throw the game!

When they saw the Rift Herald fight that shouldn't be fought, they still wanted to come over and fight!

Anyway, they just wanted to fight.

Can't win? Then just give up!

The top-jungle area was pitch black, and the five people gathered together to push forward—and just at this moment, a teleportation golden gate came through the thick wall of the jungle.

And in the teleportation gate, there was clearly a person's figure!

"Someone's coming, someone's coming!"

Hope seemed to be rekindled in the BLG voice chat!

"Neeko!!"

It was indeed a Neeko who landed.

Wei's Sejuani directly threw his ultimate forward, and the others also rushed to kill...

But what appeared was still the voice that was a bit tired of hearing: "They fell for it again~!"

It was actually {Fake Body Sitting in the Gate}!

The BLG crowd had just rushed to the door wanting to focus fire, and at this time, one strike missed, and they hadn't decided whether to continue fighting this wave.

In the teleportation gate tunnel, a figure appeared again...

This time it wasn't one.

It was one, and there were several following behind.

"They really tricked them?!" Guan Zeyuan's voice suddenly rose high and shrieked.

"Wait, teleportation gate ultimate? Teleportation gate ultimate!!!"

"Neeko first manipulates the fake body to sit in the gate to lure, the main body then starts to guide the ultimate before getting on the teleportation gate, and when landing, directly sits down—this is a team fight initiation that has no way to react and no omen!"

"Neeko and Bard, they can actually have such cooperation! Ye and Beryl are simply two geniuses!"

"What kind of team fight is this!!!"

First, the lure of the fake body sitting in the gate, then the {Stellar Spark} combination skill.

There was no omen and no front-swing; in the enemy's perspective, there was no Neeko ultimate action in the teleportation gate, and it exploded upon landing!

The terrifying combination skill led to a 0-for-5 crushing perfect team fight!

It also directly became the last straw that crushed BLG's mentality.

The voice channel was as silent as if they had arrived at a library.

Camille started mindless split-pushing.

Sejuani buried her head in farming, and then was constantly invaded and bullied by Kindred.

Zoe was just careless; as long as she took an E, she was mindlessly solo-killed.

By the second half, Gao Gao, who had completely collapsed in the esports chair, had his eyes become listless...

As for V5.

Under the situation where Kindred's mark looting was incomparably fast and steadily advancing around the Caitlyn system—there was also the {Two-Person Horror Game} of Neeko and Bard!

In the BLG voice chat, either no one spoke.

Or it was something like:

"Bard! Bard is here!"

"No, this seems to be Neeko... damn, it really is Neeko!"

"No? This is also Neeko!?"

"Bard is on the damn top!"

Bard's teleportation gate was originally one of the hardest skills to defend against in a dominant game, with all kinds of wall-crossing points and angles that were hard to guard against.

Not to mention there was a Neeko who ran super fast, kept transforming and pretending to be Bard, and wandering around the map!

Everyone on BLG just wanted to end the pain and torture quickly!

But unfortunately.

V5 still chose to advance steadily.

Focusing on stability!

Got Baron at 20 minutes, waited for a dragon soul at 21 minutes, pushed three lanes at 24 minutes, got a second Baron at 25 minutes, and got an Elder Dragon at 26 minutes...

During which BLG was constantly hunted and teased, and was beaten to 29 kills at 27 minutes.

They just wanted to curse!!

Until 27 minutes, V5 carried the ultimate double dragon convergence and started to advance all the way.

Bard directly used his ultimate to shield the nexus towers, forcing the opponent's five-person positioning to retreat, giving Neeko an angle to initiate.

However, the five opponents were simply wishing for it.

They directly gave up their home!

Finally, at 27 minutes and 49 seconds, BLG finally successfully let their own nexus explode!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 223 =====