Chapter 240: Lightning Blind Monk

After killing the Monkey King, the Nidalee took the opportunity to invade and clear two camps in the opponent's blue jungle.

Although the bot lane had a huge advantage at the start, not only did they chunk the Lucian's health at level one, but the Thresh also leveled up W.

However, considering the Nidalee in the jungle, the T1 bot lane naturally dared not overextend. The V5 bot lane, meanwhile, began arrogantly fighting for lane priority the moment they arrived. By the time the jungler showed up, the bot lane had already secured the minion wave advantage and pushed rapidly, avoiding most of the level-one disadvantage!

"Oner is really suffering too much in the jungle these past few minutes!"

The Roaring Emperor looked at the Monkey, who was scurrying about in the jungle, with a look of heartbreak.

Nidalee's 1v1 capability in the jungle is clear; if both sides could maintain equal development, there might be a chance to fight once levels were higher.

But the start was a total collapse, and now they can only be forced to avoid combat.

Although the T1 bot lane certainly still has an advantage, the Lee Sin's support advantage in the mid lane is even more obvious.

The "Jungle Bullying" has reached the five-and-a-half-minute mark.

Nidalee is already leading by 16 CS in the matchup and has reached level six, similar to both mid laners!

Compared to "transformation-type" heroes like Jayce and Elise, Nidalee's combat power increase at level six is definitely the most obvious—the damage of the Cougar form's Q, W, and E skills is purely based on the R ultimate, unrelated to the skill points themselves.

A level-one R is equivalent to increasing the damage of three skills.

"Relying on the huge early-game advantage in the jungle, V5 directly takes the first small dragon!"

"And taking advantage of the gap while V5 is starting the dragon, Oner also seizes the opportunity to head to the upper half to swap resources and catch up on the development gap."

"The mid-jungle area of both sides should have been a dense war zone, but due to the imbalance of combat power in the jungle, it has actually constrained the confrontation in the mid lane."

The jungle start has far-reaching effects.

The Monkey's disadvantage affects not only himself; once an invading hero like Nidalee starts rampaging in the jungle, it is very easy for the three side lanes to be affected because teammates have to frequently protect the jungle.

At 6 minutes, both supports begin to roam, also focusing on the jungle confrontation.

Rakan is mainly protecting the Monkey to defend against the high-pressure jungle invasion as much as possible.

But Nidalee and Thresh are not just attacking the jungle; from time to time, they also initiate offensives on the lanes, bringing immense pressure to all three T1 lanes!

At 7 minutes and 30 seconds, the Monkey finally reaches level six.

The period approaching the Rift Herald team fight is always the easiest time for disputes to erupt, and both jungle-support duos seem to have some movements.

"The T1 jungle-support is approaching the back of the mid lane, while V5 seems to be heading to the top lane?"

"Actually, the mid and top heroes on both sides are not easy to gank; one is too flexible, and the other has heavy vision setup."

Lee Sin and LeBlanc are clearly both types with extremely high mobility and are difficult to kill.

The top lane itself consists of two tanks, and because the Rift Herald team fight is about to happen, both sides have set up a lot of vision in the top lane.

"The top lane river is full of wards! If the V5 jungle-support wants to gank Ornn, they have to sneak in from behind the minion wave, but they probably didn't expect that Zeus actually placed a ward in the third lane bush... As soon as they show their heads, they will be exposed!" The Roaring Emperor does not hide his praise for Zeus.

Bang also nods with satisfaction: "Youqi has indeed grown a lot this year, especially in terms of anti-ganking; it's much better than last year."

In the two games T1 lost to EDG last year, Zeus being ganked silly by the mid lane for two consecutive games is something he can't shift the blame for.

And this perhaps also contributed to his growth in learning lessons this year, showing significant improvement in anti-ganking, demonstrating quite good awareness and discipline.

"I feel like there's a great opportunity in the mid lane!" Wolf's attention is focused on the mid lane.

"This Lee Sin is a bit too confident; relying on the health advantage, he hasn't set up much vision at all. The jungle-support has already bypassed the upper half and snuck near the lower river!"

Both jungle-support duos want to initiate an attack, but the targets chosen are completely different.

But in Keria's view, the targets chosen by both sides must be the same.

It must be the mid lane!

Both supports just met in the upper river, so they must both know that each other has a lot of vision setup in the upper river—that's why Keria deliberately detoured to the lower river, wanting to coordinate a sneak attack.

As for the top lane, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem like there's an opportunity.

Therefore, even though the T1 jungle-support has already taken position, they didn't dare to act directly.

One reason is seeing the Lee Sin's extremely arrogant forward positioning, concluding that there must be someone behind him.

Of course, despite the early-game disadvantage in the mid-jungle, the Monkey's small-scale team fighting is significantly stronger than Nidalee's, so this 3v3 is hard to say.

The second reason they dare not act proactively... is the game of chess during the mid-lane laning phase, leading to the difference in status between the two sides.

In the previous multiple trades, Ye Bo used methods like using basic attacks to whittle down minions, then E to kill them, and hitting Q the moment the lane was cleared, gaining a clear health advantage in the trades.

His Lee Sin didn't max E this game, also because the advantage in the jungle was too great, and there wasn't much lane pressure in the mid lane.

Facing a hero like LeBlanc who wouldn't dare to use W to clear the wave proactively anyway, maxing E second was already enough to have lane priority.

And if Lee Sin wants to maximize "burst" and "damage," he ultimately still needs to max Q to have a chance.

But at this moment... V5's top lane has already initiated!

Beryl is certain that they wouldn't dare to "gamble" that there's no one behind the mid lane, so he brought Xun to the top lane to find another way, turning the uncertain 3v3 war into a 3-on-1 opportunity!

But just as Nidalee and Thresh approached the top lane minion wave, Ornn, who was pushing the wave forward, immediately turned around and walked back!

This action undoubtedly instantly exposed the information that there was a ward in the back.

But the V5 group still didn't give up the idea.

"Brother Shengqiang Ge!"

With a loud shout, Thresh inexplicably threw a hook directly toward the minion pile in front, hooked a minion, pulled himself in, and turned to throw a lantern at Nidalee.

Zeus, seeing this, was not panicked at all, directly using E to dash out, wanting to open up the distance.

Even if Thresh wanted to use the minion to close the distance, this E was enough to open up the distance between the two; even if they forced a Flash to keep him, it would at most be a Flash exchange, or even not even that.

But it was also at this moment...

Sion suddenly lifted his foot high, aiming at the minion hooked by Thresh, and used E 【Roar of the Slayer】!

The minion was kicked far forward by Sion for 1200 yards—inexplicably, Thresh's figure also continued to fly in the air!

Following along and flying forward!!

About to raid in front of Ornn, he used the reverse 【Flay】 to interrupt Ornn, who had just started his E skill dash, and flayed him back to his original spot.

And Nidalee, who had delayed picking up the lantern, also followed and flew over.

Directly boarding the "Aerial Train," they leaped nearly 2000 yards together and killed their way to Ornn's face!

"My goodness!!!" Guan Zeyuan exclaimed with genuine emotion: "What kind of combination skill is this from the V5 top-jungle-support!!"

"Thresh directly brings Nidalee to instantly kill their way behind Ornn! And interrupted the E; Ornn is going to be completely locked down!"

"Zeus uses Flash, but Brother Shengqiang Ge has already driven the car to hit him!"

It must be said that Zeus's operation in this situation was still calm enough, with details maxed out, and he didn't panic and use his skills at the first moment.

Turning his head to call the ram, facing the incoming Sion, he held onto his W 【Bellows Breath】 and cast it simultaneously, using the {Unstoppable} of W to body-block the car.

But {Unstoppable} can only immune the instant control, it cannot "eliminate" the control.

And although Sion's ultimate was blocked from the first stage of {Knockup}, the subsequent 1.5 seconds of {Stun} were still taken solidly, and he remained stunned in place after the fire-breathing ram ended.

Brother Shengqiang Ge skillfully lifted his giant axe, still not greedy at all, following up with a 1-second short Q to connect the knockup control, causing Ornn to miss his ultimate completely.

Although Ornn is quite tanky, it's impossible to build magic resist against Sion in the laning phase, and Nidalee, who rushed to his face at the first moment, had considerable output; the three of them chased him to the tower and easily killed him!

"What a handsome coordination! This is V5's..."

"But be careful in the mid lane!"

Clearly, Lee Sin deliberately pretended to be arrogant at first, convinced that the opponent's current disadvantage meant they wouldn't dare to initiate first.

And the moment his top-lane teammates showed their heads, Ye Bo immediately turned and leaned toward the upper river.

The T1 mid-lane trio, who were stunned, saw the encounter of their top-lane teammates and naturally couldn't just let it go.

The Monkey used W to touch out and approach, while Rakan used E to dash from the bush, just waiting for someone to hold them first before following up with control.

Li Xianghe originally wanted to wait for his teammates to initiate, after all, his own status wasn't great, but seeing Lee Sin move in advance and about to open up the distance, he knew he had to hold someone!

LeBlanc decisively stepped forward with W, wanting to aim and throw E.

But, the moment he saw LeBlanc's big feet leave the ground.

Lee Sin suddenly kicked 【Sonic Wave】 toward the front of LeBlanc's W—{LeBlanc's W displacement process cannot be canceled or interrupted by herself}!

Even more terrifying is the moment the sonic wave was kicked out.

The soles of Lee Sin's feet also instantly flashed with golden light!

"W-ward-Flash" instantly burst through, and before LeBlanc reached the destination, he fiercely lifted his foot for 【Dragon's Rage】!

"So fast!!!"

The scariest part wasn't the predicted sonic wave, but that the action of LeBlanc's landing point and the Dragon's Rage arrived almost simultaneously; even more so, Lee Sin's body leaping speed was not only faster than LeBlanc's W landing point, but even faster than the sonic wave flying!

Counting from the start of Q, all operations combined took no more than 0.5 seconds.

This is the true meaning of being able to improve the difficulty of defending against this move through "hand speed."

It is also Lee Sin's most difficult-to-react-to "Q-W-Flash-R-E-Q, person faster than Q" assassination technique!

The three T1 members were stunned for a moment.

LeBlanc held Flash and his ultimate, and although his health wasn't healthy, theoretically there was still room for operation.

But Ye Bo knew LeBlanc too well, seizing the characteristics of LeBlanc's W displacement mechanism, starting with a predicted Q, connecting with W-Flash-Ultimate with {Stun} lock, making LeBlanc unable to move throughout.

And although LeBlanc triggered the passive clone, at this time the main body was still locked by Lee Sin's second-stage Q!

In everyone's eyes, LeBlanc was already a dead man.

And LeBlanc didn't deal any damage with all his skills, Lee Sin was still at full health, and one death could even allow the opponent to {Level Up}—a full-health level 8 Lee Sin, even without skills, with full Conqueror, facing a poorly developed level 6 Monkey and level 4 Rakan.

Who could beat whom is really hard to say!

If Lee Sin were to pull off a 1v3, this wave for T1 would likely be a collapse!

But Li Xianghe was never someone who would take his hands off the keyboard just because of a desperate situation.

He also wouldn't let go of any possible opportunity.

Just as Lee Sin leaped up for the second-stage Q, LeBlanc first W-ed back, then instantly flashed backward to quickly open up the distance, and then immediately RW-ed into the depths of the tower!

"What is Faker doing????"

This was clearly useless, after all, 【Resonating Strike】 has a tracking effect, no matter how LeBlanc changes his figure, he cannot get rid of it.

But Li Xianghe knew how big the difference was between his death and survival this wave.

And the reason he didn't RW toward his teammates' direction, besides wanting to bring the opponent into the tower, actually shows Li Xianghe's deep understanding of LeBlanc.

The core reason is that LeBlanc's W speed is far slower than Lee Sin's Q.

If he ran toward his teammates' direction, Lee Sin's Q2 flight angle would form an "angle" rather than a "straight line," and Resonating Strike would automatically "take a shortcut" and arrive early; he would likely be kicked to death in the air!

Only by running in a straight line could he delay the speed at which he was caught up by Resonating Strike.

And just as Resonating Strike was about to kick LeBlanc, Li Xianghe seemed to want to pinch the frame delay, pressing RW to turn back at the moment of the intersection of his toes and shell.

"He didn't die!?"

A strange scene appeared.

Lee Sin landed deep in the tower where LeBlanc had flashed and RW-ed, and did not continue to track out of the tower.

LeBlanc's health bar, which looked like a certain death, clearly did not take the damage from Q2.

"He survived! Axi, Faker actually survived!" The LCK commentary desk instantly turned from danger to joy. The live stream chat was shocked by the multiple eye-catching reversals that erupted within these thirty seconds.

【Good guy, is it this passionate? Everyone is so capable of operating!?】

【This Thresh-Sion soul fusion technique seems to have some merit? Why not develop a strange bot lane combination?】

【Fast! Such a fast blade, such fast feet!】

【Mom, Master Ye's hand speed, I believe he's single, damn, I didn't even see it clearly before he flew over!】

【No, brother, are you Barry Allen? Lightning Blind Monk, right!】

【Is Da Fei bugged this wave? Lee Sin's Q2 clearly didn't deal damage, shouldn't V5 call for a pause?】

Ye Bo's eyes were also a bit surprised.

He naturally knew what this operation was.

Lee Sin's Q2 judgment mechanism is that it only deals damage if it "kicks someone."

But if the opponent uses "instant displacement" to change position the moment before being kicked, it is possible to "dodge" this tracking damage—in various operation highlights, you can occasionally see operations of dodging Lee Sin's Q2 damage with Flash.

But only those who know enough know how difficult this is.

It can even be said that at least half of it is "luck"!

Human reaction is difficult to grasp that difference of dozens of frames, almost purely relying on feeling and experience.

What Ye Bo was surprised by wasn't the operation itself, but that the opponent was so decisive in daring to use it, without thinking about how much worse it would be if it failed.

However, although the result was rewritten.

He could also fully accept it.

It's nothing more than changing from a huge profit to a small profit—after all, this wave was a 3-on-1 with all skills exchanged, and they didn't kill him.

And the LCK commentary desk, which had just escaped from the panic, also realized something at this time.

"That's not right, this is still a huge loss!" The Roaring Emperor immediately asserted after carefully observing the mini-map.

"Although Lee Sin was brought into the tower, the defensive tower only shot twice, and LeBlanc has completely lost combat power!"

"Mainly, the top lane will only respawn in twenty seconds, but the Rift Herald will refresh in less than ten seconds... Is T1 going to hand over the Rift Herald like this!?"

Originally, both sides were prepared to clash head-on at the Rift Herald.

But as long as Lee Sin's status can be restored by eating two fruit plates in the river, LeBlanc's ultimate 50-second CD cannot be turned around, and even if he TPs out after backing, his combat power is limited.

The most critical thing is Ornn's accidental death!

Both ADCs are on the way; if they are unwilling to give up, they can only fight 4v5 hard, waiting for Ornn to respawn... but once they are forced to engage and don't handle it well, they might be in big trouble!

The forced engagement capability of Thresh + level 6 Kalista cannot be underestimated.

Li Xianghe calmed his rapid breathing and carefully deliberated on the way back to base.

Finally, he rationally chose to give up on competing.

After all, the health of T1's three-lane defensive towers is very healthy, and losing the Rift Herald is not a particularly serious matter; taking the risk of a team fight explosion for this gain is not worth it.

This choice is undoubtedly wise, and they even made further responses.

LeBlanc TPs directly to the bot lane, and at the same time, the three people who have already arrived in the mid lane are not idle, directly starting to threaten the mid lane first tower.

V5 cannot hand over TP to the bot lane at the first moment, to prevent the front from becoming 4v4 and losing the certainty of victory, nor can they abandon the river terrain they have already taken to take care of the mid lane first tower, to avoid the opponent's feint.

Finally, V5 took the Herald, but was also successfully exchanged by T1 for two plating layers, swapping for economic replenishment.

But fortunately, V5's reaction was equally rapid.

After killing the Herald, they immediately began to redeploy troops.

Lee Sin backed and TP-ed to the bot lane to defend, while Sion headed to the mid lane to clear the wave, and at the same time, the three people in the jungle-bot directly took the Herald to the top.

The confrontation between the two sides changed in an instant.

"Both sides suddenly entered the lane transition period! The rhythm changes of these two teams are so fast!" Guan Zeyuan said with great exclamation.

Jide nodded in agreement: "I have to say, this is the characteristic of these two teams. The team coordination of both sides is the best in the two major regions. This point can be said that even LCK's number one seed GEN is not as good as T1!"

Speaking of GEN, Guan Zeyuan seemed to disagree again.

"It can't be compared like that, the playstyle characteristics of GEN players are different from T1."

"However, V5's response is very smart, seizing the opponent's personnel gap and launching an attack on the top lane first tower!"

"In this case, Kalista and Thresh, combined with Nidalee, have a very fast tower-breaking speed, and Ornn still has to be careful about being killed."

The command adjustments and lane transition processing that changed instantly on both sides were exquisite.

Seeing that V5 wanted to use the TP gap and personnel gap to directly break the top lane first tower, T1 didn't foolishly mobilize mid-lane personnel to rush to the top and waste time.

Instead, they also counter-attacked the lack of personnel in your mid lane and launched an attack on the mid tower.

Both top laners forcibly defended the tower, buying time for their own side.

Both sides also showed seamless tower-diving coordination... but clearly, Sion's hero advantage was brought into play!

Also being tower-dived and killed under the tower.

Sion immediately turned into a wax zombie and stood up; the opponent feared the zombie's attack power and dared not stay under the tower, easily clearing all minion waves and preventing the tower push.

But Ornn not only failed to clear the minion wave, and because V5 had the Rift Herald, they successfully took the first tower when there were still two plating layers on the mid tower, and then returned to defend the mid lane!

Of course, compared to T1, although they lost, it was already an acceptable result.

But immediately after, T1's "operation" also began.

At 10 minutes and 30 seconds.

T1 continued to let go of the second small dragon, used to swap resources in the upper half.

Their thinking is very clear, which is to drag it out!

The small dragon is a "long-term benefit" and has no direct economic benefit—so use the previous small dragon to swap for economy, waiting for the key carry's equipment to be ready, so that there is a stable grasp of the team fight.

But V5 also has its own team means.

That is the jungle hunting of mid-jungle linkage!

The combination of Lee Sin and Nidalee is too strong in jungle combat power, and the arrest capability is extremely exaggerated; basically, appearing in vision is a bit dangerous.

T1's entire team, thanks to wise resource swapping, preserved the development of the double carries, but the jungle simply couldn't be taken care of.

This led to the Monkey being pitifully thin and frequently arrested!

Until nearly 12 minutes.

The Monkey hadn't even touched Divine Sunderer, while Nidalee already had one and a half completed items in hand!

And.

Things are also hard to go according to plan all the time, there will always be mistakes and gaps.

At 13 minutes, Lee Sin and LeBlanc were pushing lanes in the bot lane.

Because Ye Bo didn't build any magic resist, although Lee Sin was better developed, LeBlanc definitely also had room for operation.

There is a possibility of "mutual instant kill" between the two sides.

Li Xianghe really wanted to find an opportunity for the team on the side lane, playing very proactively.

But this was clearly a bit forgetful.

He seemed to have forgotten why he had luckily escaped in that previous wave.

It was just after exchanging a wave of health, and it was a scene reproduction once again.

There were no "fancy" secret techniques.

Person faster than Q, it can be said that it is the purest "muscle" to the extreme.

Li Xianghe was already on guard this time, seeing 【Sonic Wave】 appear, he subconsciously used W to jump away, and even without looking at the direction of Q's shot, 【Distortion】 had already been used.

However, that sonic wave seemed a little bit "crooked"!

The conventional operation of Q first, then W-ward-R is not established—because W displacement speed is only slightly faster than Q, but R has a 0.5-second casting action, which cannot be connected.

So it must be "Q-Flash" + "Small Angle R" + "Short Distance W-ward"—let Q be cast in place, using the end of the Q skill to compensate for the 1200-yard distance, to "chase" the 700-yard distance of W, to be possible to achieve.

This is still the purest "technology" without any outrageous mechanism!

When Lee Sin W-ward-Flashed to LeBlanc's side face, Distortion had already jumped, but was immediately interrupted by a horizontal kick!

And the direction of the kick was exactly the direction the sonic wave had kicked out earlier.

"Q-Flash-Short-W-Predicted-Triangle-Kill!"

"My goodness! Solo kill! And it's a triangle kill!!"

"Master Ye! It's him again! Still him!"

"This is too handsome!"

The purest muscle confrontation made the three people on the LPL commentary desk unable to help but pat the table and cheer.

【Dan!!! Sha!!!】

【Tadpole speaks!!!】

【No brother??? Master Ye, why don't we just use some outrageous mechanisms, I can still steal some things, but I really can't learn this damn thing!!】

【If Da O is a sports student, Master Ye is a proper muscle man! Ye-v Schwarzenegger!】

【It's really too damn fast... No, it's really just impossible to react, right? What can be done about this!】

【Alas, it can only be said that Fei Fei is old, if it were him ten years ago, he would definitely have been able to react~~~】

Li Xianghe sat expressionless on the seat, looking as if he hadn't been affected at all.

But looking closely at the fingers switching screens with F1-F3, they were clearly very forceful, and the protruding joints of the palms seemed a bit slightly red and swollen.

The T1 fans in the audience also suddenly fell silent.

And the LCK commentary desk could only try to downplay this solo kill as much as possible to reduce the impact on their own morale.

"To be honest, this head, it's very dry..."

"Lee Sin using a Flash to get a solo kill, actually it's not profitable at all, wait for the third soul dragon, he won't be able to kick people!"

The Roaring Emperor skillfully changed the subject: "Previously, V5 relied on the second Herald to hit the mid lane first tower, which finally opened up some economic gap, and this solo kill is nothing more than bringing the economic difference between the two sides to 3.96k, not even 4k!"

"T1 clearly has no reason to let go of the third dragon, especially since the ADC equipment gap is very small, T1's previous waves of endurance will definitely play a role!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 241 =====