Chapter 237: Nautilus
"What is this again!"
Everyone vaguely felt as if they had seen it somewhere before, and felt that something was different somewhere.
"All three were knocked up by an unknown source! Renekton drilled out and flashed, Red Fury W bit Kindred, Kha'Zix jumped out across the wall..."
"Kha'Zix's damage is so high! It seems to be triggering Isolation!?"
"Jin Kesi supplements a missile!"
The knock-up effect of Nautilus's ultimate move is not "in-place knock-up."
Instead, it performs an irregular "bouncing" knock-up based on the landing position of Nautilus's anchor.
The {Isolation} judgment distance of Kha'Zix is actually very small; two units only need to be separated by 400 yards to be isolated—almost needing to be "close" to avoid it!
Of course, even if Isolation couldn't be triggered, Kindred, who was suddenly knocked up by the Depth Charge, had no way to survive.
Because Lulu, who could protect each other, was also knocked up.
Waiting for the knock-up to land, Renekton's W had already finished biting, and Kha'Zix had also finished a scratch and then used his ultimate to go invisible to refresh A; Lulu had nowhere to give a shield or Whimsy at all.
And the key point of this wave was clearly that inexplicable seismic wave!
Oner and Gumayusi both had Flash in their hands this time, so they didn't rush when seeing Nautilus hook, but they just discovered that the hook was actually crooked, and didn't expect that it could still be "crooked and hit the right target"!
"Kindred failed to open the ultimate move and was killed in seconds, the big Renekton is stirring in the crowd, the combat power is amazing! Jin Kesi is going to start!"
"And Nautilus actually hasn't died yet!!"
If it was just Kindred being killed, it wouldn't be considered a collapse.
As long as Nautilus could also be killed, the frontal side would still be 4-vs-4.
But Li Xianghe watched with his own eyes as the Nautilus on his face opened the ultimate move, and immediately set up W {Unstoppable} wanting to offset it—but he didn't expect that the ultimate move's ripple wasn't here at all!
Waiting for the W blade to stab out, the Depth Charge ripple spread from underground, and knocked K'Sante up again!
Originally missing a firepower, Renekton and Kha'Zix had already rushed to the opponent's face. Although Gumayusi could use Cleanse and Flash to pull away instantly, he no longer had the ability to supplement damage.
Guan Zeyuan shouted with waving arms: "K'Sante and ADC have Flash and can barely escape, but the top laner and support don't have Flash!"
"Gragas and Lulu fought to the death to hold back Jin Kesi and didn't let her continue the pursuit. V5 also saw the situation and stopped, steadily playing a 0-for-3 and being able to take the Rift Herald!"
Jide made a summary: "Not just 0-for-3 plus Herald, more importantly, the triple kill harvested by Jin Kesi! Earned crazy!"
Rita was full of confusion: "What happened again? How were three people suddenly knocked up? Can Nautilus be so 'fancy'?"
【666666666, it's really handsome!】
【K'Sante went to hug Nautilus, what was he thinking? Big Fly is really dizzy!】
【Don't understand, right? K'Sante hugging Nautilus in the river—this is the Nautilus Nigga Number!】
【I've always been very strange, Kindred is clearly two people, Kindred and Wolf, why can Kha'Zix still trigger Isolation?】
【I know this question! Because Kindred's Wolf Spirit is like the child of a prefect; although everyone knows he is there, he actually doesn't count as a complete person!】
【I'm measuring, are there any experts who can understand this operation? I can't understand it at all.】
If the previous wave was indeed difficult to notice and understand.
Then this wave was much clearer.
Wolf, who had the God's eye view, finally noticed the positions where the Depth Charge appeared twice.
The T1 crowd, who were victims twice on the field, also realized it, including the strangeness of the previous wave.
And importantly, after the T1 crowd understood the principle.
They discovered the "true meaning."
This is absolutely not some so-called "fancy technique"!
A normal Nautilus ultimate move requires getting close to cast, not to mention the pre-swing action of long-distance casting and the time for "underground spreading" in the middle, which will take at least 2-3 seconds to take effect.
This is already enough to make the opponent take defensive measures!
Just like this time—if Nautilus walked over to give Kindred a lock-on R, Kindred could completely release the ultimate move to save her life before the shockwave spread, and would definitely pull away the positioning, avoiding affecting teammates.
But what if this technique is used?
First of all, you don't know where the shockwave will pop out at all!
How can this be defended!?
Even if you hand over a short displacement to pull away, you can't escape the coverage area of the shockwave; you can only hand over Flash—and if you don't pull away, you will be more simply and directly hit by the full set of Q+R.
The only way seems to be that after seeing the opponent raise his hand to R or raise his hand to Q, everyone will immediately hand over all life-saving skills in place...
Oner did just that.
—However, in fact, Nautilus can also adjust the {speed of QR connection}. As long as he waits for the anchor to land and then uses R, he can restore the trajectory of the shockwave to normal!
A feint tricked out Kindred's ultimate move from thousands of miles away, and still played the effect of "one R hitting two"!
Ye Bo was still constantly showing his deep understanding that was shocking.
For example, even without Q, Nautilus can also change the hero's orientation through 【Passive A connected to R】, making the anchor's landing point turn behind him, which can also play the "front-and-back turning double R"!
Keria, who considered himself half a Nautilus enthusiast, was already shocked to the point of being unable to speak.
Is this still Nautilus?!
Is this still the Nautilus who is clumsy to death in everyone's eyes and treated as a "mixed hero"?
After a few waves of fighting, plus the gap in roaming in front.
T1's economic gap had already been torn open.
And once the frontal combat power is unbalanced, T1's defensive pressure will suddenly increase when facing V5's lineup with double hooks.
This hero Blitzcrank has many shortcomings.
For example, Q is the slowest, longest pre-swing, narrowest and hardest-to-hit among all {hook skills}.
For example, once Q is empty, compared to the other hook heroes who have stable functions like lock-on, lantern, execution, etc., Blitzcrank can be said to have all his skills in the hook, and his role will instantly drop by 90%!
For another example, due to the special nature of the Rocket Grab, he is the only one who can directly "grab" the enemy to his face from thousands of yards away, so an untimely hook might "harm teammates," instead helping the enemy save displacement skills...
However, Blitzcrank also has advantages that other heroes are hard to replace.
For example, the ability to "reverse fate" by hooking a carry in a disadvantageous game.
Or in an advantageous game, it can definitely be called the easiest fatal hook.
However, to be honest, Beryl's hook is not accurate.
So he simply almost never actively hooks!
In fact, Blitzcrank himself shouldn't hook in many cases; only by holding Q in his hand does he have enough deterrence, and throwing it empty rashly will instead give the opponent an opportunity to operate.
Blitzcrank must be paired with a lineup to exert power!
Renekton and Nautilus's first-hand point-to-point control, Kha'Zix's evolved W slow, can all greatly increase the hit rate of the hook.
It's not easy to hit by hooking yourself.
Isn't it easy to hit if teammates help me initiate and keep people?
"T1 has been dropping points continuously in these few minutes, now it's a bit hard to engage in frontal team fights, even the second Herald seems to have to be let go!" The Roaring Emperor became more anxious the more he watched.
"Kindred finally took the opportunity to eat her second mark, but the situation is still very passive!"
"But to be honest, actually the economic gap is not big..."
Bang shook his head and whispered: "This game can't look at the economic gap, if it goes on like this, the situation is a bit bad..."
Compared to last year, this team T1 actually has quite a few changes, regardless of the overall playing style or the state of the players.
But one thing hasn't changed.
They rarely make decision-making mistakes.
Every time they give up resources or drop points on the side lanes, they will never do useless rear support, or "Gourd Baby saving Grandpa."
It must be a clear-headed and decisive swap of resources to reduce losses.
Relying on this, even if the side lanes were constantly finding opportunities by Nautilus and Blitzcrank, the economic gap was not quickly exploded.
But as Bang said.
T1's situation is still not optimistic.
The worst news is that Jin Kesi has risen early!
Their lineup is biased towards counter-attacking, with Lulu + Kindred's double protection, and even a combination skill of Gragas's ultimate move blowing the opponent out of the Lamb's Respite circle, which is very reasonable when facing V5's strong assault lineup.
If the development of the back row of both sides is equal, T1's team fight will be very simple, just protect the two shooters and fight, and there is no need to cut the back row at all.
But the problem now is that the output ability gap of the back row is too large!
You have to cut!
3-0 Jin Kesi, at 16 minutes, has the super luxury two-piece set of {Kraken Slayer} + {Infinity Edge}.
In contrast, Aphelios barely has more than one piece, and Kindred only has 3 marks, not even getting the most basic 4-layer mark that increases attack range!
Letting this Jin Kesi output, T1 simply can't hold it; as long as one person is killed, she will take off and ascend.
And the perfect offensive coordination shown by V5 doesn't look like they will lose in the advantage operation exchange, and if they continue to operate, the disadvantage will only get bigger and bigger.
Without a successful reverse-situation team fight, the equipment gap between the two carries will only get bigger and bigger.
V5 took the second small dragon, then turned to the second Herald.
Because K'Sante's deterrent under the tower is still very strong, Nautilus didn't dare to touch the tower rashly, let alone tower-dive, so the pushing speed of the mid first tower was slow.
V5 still relied on the second Herald, and by relying on the power of two Heralds, they finally broke the mid first tower.
Jin Kesi triggered the passive "Get Excited!", and V5 also took the opportunity to continue pushing forward, preparing to take the second Herald and hit another one.
But this move.
Li Xianghe suddenly realized that it might be an opportunity...
T1 has played many huge disadvantageous team fights in history, what kind of 10,000 economic disadvantage, or even team fights where the opponent has already determined victory, relies on the ability of the core figures in the team to grasp opportunities, as well as the instantaneous coordination ability of the whole team.
"Look at my position."
Jin Kesi is in the state of "Get Excited!", with the state of the entire V5 team at this time, clearly there won't be any vigilance.
This second tower looks like it must be lost no matter how you look at it.
However, Ye Bo had been guarding against K'Sante and Gragas, which was the only person who could open Jin Kesi.
At this time, he suddenly discovered.
K'Sante is gone?
After hesitating for a long time, Ye Bo immediately pressed the S key to stop in place, and then quickly dragged the mini-map to browse the back of the mid lane, shaking at an extremely ghostly speed.
{The TP effect is invisible on the mini-map, but the light pillar effect of TP can be seen by switching screens without vision}
In the screen that Ye Bo shook extremely fast, when he stayed at the entrance of the top river, he saw the purple light pillar in the shadow.
"TP behind!"
"Don't mess up the formation, retreat together!"
T1 crowd seeing the opponent's move to retreat clearly also immediately guessed that they were exposed, and everyone immediately pressed forward, but didn't dare to chase too deep. Because the intention was exposed too quickly, K'Sante had just left the blind spot of vision and TP hadn't landed yet; chasing too deep might be counter-opened!
So T1 only had Gragas standing slightly forward, and the other three shrank in the back, following cautiously.
"K'Sante landed! But the TP position seems to have been insighted!"
"Can this position still be opened!?"
Although because they were discovered too quickly and couldn't land, Li Xianghe didn't want to let go of this opportunity, and was still shouting at his teammates loudly.
Renekton wanted to use his physical body to W and block the opponent.
And K'Sante directly EW double-rushed forward and seconds out, hitting the Renekton who came to block, and at the same time, the third-stage Flash displacement forcibly pierced into the crowd and came to Jin Kesi's face!
The goal was clear!
Deft keenly sensed the danger and instinctively flashed forward wanting to pull away without any hesitation.
But, he was fooled.
K'Sante's set of "E-second-W-Flash-R" entry almost had no reaction time, as long as the hand speed was fast enough, Jin Kesi would be very hard to hand over Flash—{K'Sante's ultimate move will apply a 'Stun' effect to the target when casting, so you can only predict it in advance}.
But Li Xianghe happened to "freeze" for a moment in place at the moment of flashing in and not R-ing in the first place.
It was precisely this gap that successfully allowed Deft to hand over Flash and pull away backward.
But this was clearly not the former's mistake.
And just as the golden light appeared under Jin Kesi's feet, K'Sante also almost simultaneously threw the double axes in his hand, grabbing the opponent and pulling her back fiercely!
What's terrifying is...
The position where Jin Kesi flew back was actually her starting point before flashing! Double the distance of displacement!
{K'Sante's ultimate move has the effect of 'forced locking position'; if you are locked by the ultimate move during the 0.5 seconds of using displacement to pull away, you will still start from K'Sante's position—similar to Jayce's E mechanism}
However, even knowing this mechanism, this is undoubtedly an operation with extremely high risk!
But the effect is incomparably significant.
Jin Kesi has Flash and Galeforce; if K'Sante just pulls her back, at most he will only strip the opponent of their follow-up combat capability.
Wanting to kill is as difficult as ascending to heaven.
But if he uses Flash to pull her back from double the distance, the outcome is completely different!
K'Sante completed the task, landed and seconds QW to hit Aftershock burst, and immediately released the ultimate state, starting to resist the beating.
And the quick-reacting Gragas had already used Flash to empty-connect the Explosive Cask, aiming to blow Jin Kesi back!
"Air relay pass! T1 mid-top cooperation!!"
Jin Kesi, who didn't have Flash, was blown into the back of T1, which was already a nail in the coffin. Gragas directly aimed his belly at her landing point and popped out, preparing to control her to death!
But, Nautilus also moved.
Nautilus threw his hook forward, and at the same time clicked the 1+2 keys together.
The green light spots on his body reappeared in an instant, {Rocketbelt} twisted his body and sprinted upward—actively hitting Gragas who popped his belly!
"Porcelain-bumping variable-lane hook" interrupted Gragas's E skill aimed at Jin Kesi, and at the same time, a 【Depth Charge】 lock-on mark appeared on Gragas's head.
And at the same time, Kindred and Aphelios, who were looking at the "hook" flying in their direction, had completely different feelings.
Both of them instantly felt their hair stand on end!
"Here again!?"
This time both of them were extremely decisive.
The last time had already proven that Kindred's short Q and Kraken Slayer displacement couldn't steadily twist out of the coverage area of the shockwave.
Both of them almost simultaneously handed over Flash, and the Flash position was surprisingly consistent—both flashed into the corner across the wall, just one step away, in front of the second tower!
With Jin Kesi's position blown back, there was no way to run; Gragas and K'Sante should be able to complete the kill.
The point is that Nautilus's damage is already very high at this time; they must ensure the health of their health, in preparation for subsequent battles!
This position, don't look at the distance from the hook, it's just a wall away, but it's absolutely enough to make Nautilus "desperate"!
If he follows with Flash, Nautilus will be disconnected from his teammates, and with Lulu and Kindred's ultimate move, it's impossible to kill them, and he might even sell himself instead.
If he doesn't follow with Flash, not only can Nautilus not threaten them at all, but the crowd chasing later will also be very hard to approach here.
Aphelios scattered the turret, cooperating with Kindred's repeated jumping, and the two could completely use this thin wall as a "gun mount" to output without pressure across the wall!
The next moment.
Nautilus still flashed into the pit...
But the strangely timed shockwave appeared from under his feet at this time, and was "brought into the pit by Nautilus's physical body"!
This time, Nautilus delayed the appearance of the shockwave by adjusting the time of the {QR connection}—making Nautilus already fly to land, and the shockwave just rose from under his feet!
When landing, he seemed to have adjusted the direction he was facing.
And the tricky Depth Charge shockwave exploded under the feet of the three at this moment—due to the change of direction, the shockwave actually "bounced" the two and brought them over the wall!
"Variable version of human bomb!"
The two flew high in the air for 1.5 seconds, and Nautilus stepped out the dark current ripple across the wall to hit full damage!
"Kill this one!"
A sudden change occurred.
The team fight screen suddenly turned 180 degrees.
Because Nautilus's porcelain-bumping hook blocked Gragas's E skill for Jin Kesi, not only was a fatal damage missing, but it also made Jin Kesi gain freedom the moment she landed from the knock-up.
At this time, she could already open fire!
On the contrary, in front of Gragas, there was a "delayed shockwave" that was spreading from the ground and could not be dodged, arriving!
The good news is: Lulu's positioning was in the back this time, and she wasn't controlled together again, so ER was poured out directly.
The bad news is: Lulu could only save one, and the two were popped over the wall, their models almost "overlapping," and who the skill was given to depended entirely on fate.
Fortunately, T1 was lucky, and the skill happened to be given to Kindred.
However, Jin Kesi's 【Fishbones】 rocket launcher is {AOE damage} auto-attack.
It doesn't need to "aim."
Deft himself didn't expect that he could still survive.
The veteran experience helped him instantly understand Ye Bo's meaning and improve it.
First, he threw the E grenade forward, then connected to the raised barrel and shot one shell to hit both, hitting 444 critical damage, and at the same time connected to Kraken Slayer to pull away the position and use {automatic target residual health} + {execution} damage to track!
The egg that didn't eat protection instantly shattered into a pile of egg yolk.
"Ah, no, this, this, this Nautilus ¥%@#!?"
The commentary desk was incoherent because of this sudden change.
"Aphelios was killed!!!"
"Jin Kesi, who was blown back, actually became a pair of assassins who killed into the back row under Nautilus's rescue and counter-attack!!"
"Gragas was knocked up by the shockwave! Failed to supplement the kill on Jin Kesi! Jin Kesi is going to start!"
"K'Sante and Gragas don't seem to be able to catch up with her!!"
Kindred, who was protected by Lulu, landed, and was immediately clamped by Jin Kesi's 【Flame Chompers】 for another 1.5 seconds!
Oner knew that he couldn't supplement the kill on Jin Kesi, so he could only open R in place to save his life first.
But the 【Lamb's Respite】 area just appeared.
In the crowd that was beating K'Sante in the back, suddenly someone flashed to the side!
It was Beryl, who had been paying attention here.
Jin Kesi's spiritual landing grenade became a key foreshadowing, and at this time, even if Oner knew what the opponent was going to do, Kindred, who was clamped, couldn't move at all!
The Rocket Grab flew out, directly "grabbing" Kindred out of the range of Lamb's Respite!
"Kill this one first!"
The crowd instantly turned their guns to give up on K'Sante, Kha'Zix scratched and Renekton rushed to kill the residual Kindred.
And killing Kindred first was because it could continue to provide 【Get Excited!】 for Jin Kesi!
Zeus's Gragas still wanted to use the Q rolling barrel to kill Jin Kesi, who had less than 200 health.
But the 175% movement speed provided by Get Excited made Jin Kesi feel like she was wearing running shoes and flying, easily pulling away!
The second head was credited across the air.
Get Excited reset, double stacked!
Lulu DF double-handed wanted to supplement the kill, but was instantly solved by Cleanse, and had to turn around and shoot wildly!
Jin Kesi, who had only two hundred health, pulled away half a step, like a rocket launcher on fire, pouring out bombardment at extreme speed!
"Wait, how does it seem like Jin Kesi is going to finish collecting!!"
Jin Kesi, whose attack speed had already stacked to 75%, made the already terrifying output go up another level, and the super long attack range attached to the rocket launcher completely made it difficult for the opponent to touch!
"Triple kill!"
"Quadra kill!"
"It seems like it's going to be a Penta kill!!"
The V5 team was also shouting to let it go.
And the remaining few people were clearly already turtles in a jar with nowhere to escape.
Jin Kesi turned back and took K'Sante with one shot, while Nautilus helped her keep Gragas and fed him into her mouth.
The live broadcast room and barrage instantly boiled!
【Holy shit! Alpaca!】
【To be honest, isn't this wave purely Jin Kesi k-ing five heads from Nautilus? Purely turning the tide + Penta kill fed to the mouth!】
【It really is, this wave Jin Kesi almost became an epic-level war criminal, right?】
【Gonggong Angrily Hits Mount Buzhou! I announce that this year's championship skin is Nautilus! Just use this Mountain and Sea Scroll: Gonggong as the prototype!】
【Gonggong? This is Taiyi Saving Suffering Heavenly Venerable! This can even save people, this Nautilus is really like a god!】
【This is Akali-Nautilus, worthy of being my sect leader!!】
【It can only be said that this hero fully explains that there is no "mixed hero" in the world, only "mixed people"!】
"Fierce, brothers!" Sheng Qiang Ge shouted excitedly.
"Strong, Alpaca-ge!" Although it wasn't his own Penta kill, Ye Bo was also very happy and followed with excited congratulations.
Deft was also clearly very excited to get the Penta kill, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was uncontrollable.
But clearly, he knew best what was going on, and even now he was still a bit lingering in fear: "This wave is all thanks to you... really too amazing."
Xun immediately agreed: "Master Ye is awesome! This Nautilus stunned me!"
"Awesome, awesome!" Beryl also said with a smile: "Nautilus is actually so fun, I'll try this next time..."
Originally, T1's situation was only a bit tense, but as long as they developed to the mid-to-late game, the lineup would definitely still have a battle, relying on the lane-clearing ability of the double AD shooters, V5 actually might not be easy to push in.
But after this wave was fought.
It had already completely announced the result.
Jin Kesi got the Penta kill, instantly reaching the super-god record of 8-0-0, and at 18 minutes, she returned to base and took out Rapid Firecannon + Last Whisper.
18 minutes, three and a half pieces vs one and a half pieces!
Purely Cybertronians playing Whack-a-Mole!
The game instantly became simple, V5 didn't need to initiate a team fight at all, everyone just stood next to Jin Kesi to protect and let her shoot.
T1 still wanted to put up a desperate struggle.
But when Jin Kesi's super long firecannon biu-ed, directly shooting away one-fifth of Gragas's health bar, clearly it was already impossible to find an opportunity like before.
24 minutes.
V5 held a 13,000 economic advantage, plus double dragons converging, directly pushing to the high ground, and in one fell swoop, neatly pushed flat T1's crystal!
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