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 Kalista's health at level one, but Thresh also leveled up his W.

However, considering Nidalee was in the jungle, the T1 bot lane naturally didn't dare to overextend, while the V5 bot lane started aggressively pushing the wave as soon as they arrived; by the time the jungler showed up, the bot lane had already secured wave priority and pushed quickly, avoiding most of the level-one disadvantage!

"Oner has really been suffering in the jungle these past few minutes!"

The Roaring Emperor looked at the Monkey King scurrying for cover in the jungle, his face full of heartache.

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 are higher.

But the start was a total disaster, and now there is no choice but to avoid combat.

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

The "Jungle Bullying" session 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, the combat power spike of Nidalee at level six is absolutely the most significant—the damage of the Cougar form's Q, W, and E skills comes purely from the R ultimate, independent of the skill points themselves.

One level of 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 Dragon!"

"And taking advantage of the gap while V5 is doing the Dragon, Oner also seizes the chance to head to the top half of the map to swap resources and catch up on the development gap."

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

The jungle start has far-reaching consequences.

The Monkey King's disadvantage affects more than just himself; once an invading hero like Nidalee runs rampant in the jungle, it easily affects all three lanes because teammates have to frequently protect the jungle.

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

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

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

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

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

"The T1 jungle-support duo 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 is already two tanks, and because the Rift Herald fight is about to happen, both sides have set up a lot of vision in the top lane.

"The top river is full of wards! If the V5 jungle-support duo 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 in 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 caught by the mid laner in both games was a mistake he couldn't shift the blame for.

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

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

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

Both jungle-support duos want to initiate an attack at the same time, 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!

The supports of both sides just met in the top river, so they must both know that each other has a lot of vision set up in the top river—that's why Keria deliberately circled to the bottom river, wanting to coordinate a sneak attack.

As for the top lane, it doesn't look like there's an opportunity at all.

So even though the T1 jungle-support duo is in position, they don't dare to act directly.

One reason is seeing 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 King's small-scale team fights are significantly stronger than Nidalee's, so this 3v3 is hard to call.

The second reason they don't dare to initiate is the game of cat-and-mouse during the mid-lane laning phase, which led to the difference in the state of both sides.

In previous trades, Ye Bo used methods like using auto-attacks to whittle down minions, then using E to kill them and clearing the wave while landing a Q, gaining a clear health advantage.

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

Facing a hero like LeBlanc who wouldn't dare to use W to clear waves anyway, maxing E second was 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 the opponent wouldn't dare to "gamble" that there is no one behind the mid lane, which is why 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, immediately turned around and walked back!

This move undoubtedly exposed the information that there was a ward behind them.

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

"Hook!"

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

Seeing this, Zeus was not panicked at all, directly using E to dash out and try to create distance.

Even if Thresh wanted to use the minion to close the distance, this E was enough to widen the gap between the two; even if they burned Flash to force a stay, it would at most be a Flash-for-Flash trade, or perhaps not even that.

But just at this moment

Sion suddenly lifted his foot high, aimed at the minion hooked by Thresh, and used E 【Killer's Roar】!

The minion was kicked 1200 yards forward by Sion—and it actually carried Thresh's body, which was still flying in the air!

Following along as it flew forward!!

About to strike in front of Ornn was the reverse 【Flay】, interrupting Ornn, who had just started his E skill dash, and knocking him back to his original spot.

And Nidalee, who delayed picking up the lantern, also followed along.

Directly riding the "Air Train," the two flew nearly 2000 yards, killing their way to Ornn's face together!

"My god!!!" Guan Zeyuan exclaimed with genuine emotion: "What kind of combo is this from the V5 top-jungle-support trio!!"

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

"Zeus burns Flash, but Saint-Gun Brother has already driven his car in!"

It must be said that Zeus remained calm enough in this situation, with full attention to detail, and did not panic to burn his skills at the first moment.

He turned to call the ram, and facing the incoming Sion, he held onto his W 【Bellows Breath】 and cast it while turning, using the {Unstoppable} effect of W to tank the car with his body.

But {Unstoppable} only grants immunity to the instant crowd control; it cannot "eliminate" the control.

And although Sion's ultimate had its first stage of {Knock-up} blocked, the subsequent 1. seconds of {Stun} were still taken in full, leaving him stunned in place after the fire-breathing ram finished casting.

Saint-Gun Brother skillfully raised his giant axe, still not greedy at all, and followed up with a 1-second short Q to connect the knock-up control, causing Ornn to miss his ultimate entirely.

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

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

"But you have to be careful in the mid lane too!"

Clearly, Lee Sin deliberately pretended to be arrogant at first, confident that the opponent wouldn't dare to initiate first due to their current disadvantage.

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

The three T1 mid-lane members, who were stunned to realize the encounter of their top-lane teammate, naturally couldn't just let it go.

The Monkey King used W to move closer, while Rakan used E to dash from the bush, waiting for someone to lock them down first before following up with control.

Li Xianghe originally wanted to wait for his teammates to initiate, after all, his state wasn't great, but seeing Lee Sin move in advance and about to pull away, he knew he had to lock someone down!

LeBlanc decisively used W to step forward, wanting to aim and throw her E.

But, just at the moment he saw LeBlanc's 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 was the moment the sonic wave was kicked out.

A golden light also flashed instantly at the soles of Lee Sin's feet!

With the "W-ward-Flash" combo, he burst forward instantly, and before LeBlanc reached her destination, he violently raised his foot for 【Dragon's Rage】!

"So fast!!!"

The scariest part wasn't the predicted sonic wave, but that the arrival at LeBlanc's landing spot and the Dragon's Rage action were almost simultaneous; even more so was Lee Sin's flight speed, which was not only faster than LeBlanc's W landing point, but even faster than the sonic wave itself!

Counting from the start of the Q, the total time for all operations combined did not exceed 0. seconds.

This is, in the true sense, the ability to improve the unpreventability of 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 had Flash and her ultimate in hand; although her health wasn't healthy, theoretically there was still room for operation.

But Ye Bo understood LeBlanc too well; he grasped the characteristics of LeBlanc's W displacement mechanism, started with a predicted Q, followed with a W-Flash-Ultimate that carried a {Stun} lock, making LeBlanc unable to move throughout the process.

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

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

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

Who beats whom is really hard to say!

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

But Li Xianghe has never been someone to take his hands off the keyboard in a desperate situation.

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

Just as Lee Sin rose to fly in with his second-stage Q, LeBlanc first used W to return, then instantly flashed backward to quickly pull away, and immediately followed up by using R-W to step deep into the tower!

"What is Faker doing????"

This was clearly useless; after all, 【Resonating Strike】 has a tracking effect, and no matter how the Deceiver changed her position, she could not shake it off.

But Li Xianghe knew clearly how much difference it made whether he died in this wave or not.

And the reason he didn't RW toward his teammates, besides wanting to lead the opponent into the tower, actually showed Li Xianghe's deep understanding of the Deceiver.

The core reason is that the speed of the Deceiver's W is far slower than the Blind Monk's Q.

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

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

And just as Resonating Strike was about to kick into the Deceiver, Li Xianghe, as if trying to pinch the screen delay, pressed RW to turn back at the exact moment his toes met his torso.

"He didn't die!?"

A strange scene appeared.

The Blind Monk landed deep inside the tower where the Deceiver had flashed and RW'd, without continuing to track out of the tower.

The Deceiver's health bar, which looked certain to be depleted, clearly had not taken damage from the Q2.

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

【Good heavens, is it this intense? Can they all operate like this!?】

【This Thresh and Sion soul-fusion technique seems to have something to it, right? Why not develop a strange bottom-lane combo?】

【Fast! Such fast blades and such fast feet!】

【Oh my, Master Ye's hand speed, I believe he's single; damn, I didn't even see it clearly and he flew over!】

【No, buddy, are you Barry Allen? A lightning Blind Monk, huh!】

【Is Da Fei bugged this wave? The Blind Monk's Q2 clearly didn't deal damage, shouldn't V5 call a timeout?】

Ye Bo's eyes were also somewhat surprised.

He of course knew what this operation was.

The judgment mechanism of the Blind Monk's Q2 is that it only deals damage if it "kicks the person."

But if the opponent uses an "instant displacement" to change their position the moment before being kicked, it is possible to "dodge" this tracking damage—in various highlight reels, one can occasionally see operations where Flash is used to dodge the Blind Monk's Q2 damage.

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

One could even say that at least half of it is "luck"!

Human reaction is hard to grasp that difference of a few dozen frames; it relies almost purely on feeling and experience.

What surprised Ye Bo was not the operation itself, but that the opponent was so decisive and dared to use it, without thinking about things like how much worse it would be if it failed.

However, although the result was rewritten.

He could also fully accept it.

It was nothing more than going from a huge profit to a small profit—after all, this was a full exchange of skills on both sides, a three-on-one, and they still didn't get the kill.

And the LCK commentary desk, having just escaped from their panic, only now realized something.

"That's not right, this is still a huge loss!" The Roaring Emperor observed the minimap carefully and immediately asserted.

"Although the Blind Monk was led under the tower, the defensive tower only fired twice, and the Deceiver has completely lost combat effectiveness!"

"Mainly, the top laner still has twenty seconds until respawn, but the Rift Herald will refresh in less than ten seconds... Does this mean T1 is going to hand over the Rift Herald!?"

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

But as long as the Blind Monk's status could be restored by going to the river to eat two fruit plants, and the Deceiver's ultimate cooldown of fifty seconds couldn't possibly be ready, even if she returned to base and TP'd out, her combat effectiveness would be limited.

The most critical thing was Ornn's accidental death!

Both sides' ADCs were on the way; if they weren't willing to give it up, they could only fight 4v5, waiting for Ornn to respawn... but once they were engaged on, if they didn't handle it well, they might get wiped!

The engage ability of Thresh + level-six Kalista cannot be underestimated.

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

Finally, he made the rational choice to give up on contesting it.

After all, the health of T1's three-lane defensive towers was all healthy; losing the Rift Herald was not a particularly serious matter, and risking a team wipe for this gain was not worth it.

This choice was undoubtedly wise, and he even made further responses.

The Deceiver went out and immediately TP'd to the bottom lane; at the same time, the three people who had already arrived in the middle lane were not idle and immediately began to threaten the middle lane's first tower.

V5 could not immediately use TP to go to the bottom lane, to prevent the front line from becoming 4v4 and losing their certainty of victory, nor could they abandon the river terrain they had already occupied to take care of the middle tower, avoiding the possibility that the opponent was feinting.

In the end, V5 took the Herald, but they were also successfully traded by T1 for two plating layers, exchanging for an economic supplement.

But fortunately, V5's reaction was equally swift.

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

The Blind Monk returned to base and TP'd to the bottom lane to defend, while Sion headed to the middle lane to clear the wave, and at the same time, the three people in the jungle and bottom lane immediately took the Herald to the top lane.

The confrontation between the two sides shifted in an instant.

"Both sides have suddenly entered the lane-swapping phase! The tempo changes of these two teams are so fast!" Guan Zeyuan said with great amazement in his tone.

Jide nodded in agreement: "I have to say, this is the characteristic of these two teams; the team synergy of both sides is second to none in the two major regions. In this regard, one could say that even LCK's number one seed GEN is not as good as T1!"

Speaking of GEN, Guan Zeyuan seemed to disagree again.

"You can't really compare them like that; the playstyle characteristics of GEN's players are just different from T1's."

"However, V5's response here is very smart, seizing the opponent's numerical gap to launch an attack on the top first tower!"

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

The instantly changing command adjustments and lane-swapping handling on both sides were both exquisite.

Seeing that V5 wanted to use the TP difference and numerical advantage to directly break the top first tower, T1 did not foolishly move personnel from the middle lane to rush to the top and waste time.

Instead, they also backhanded to catch the lack of personnel in V5's middle lane and launched an attack on the middle tower.

Both top laners forcibly defended their towers to buy time for their own sides.

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

Likewise, he was tower-dived and killed under the tower.

Sion immediately turned into a zombie and stood up; the opponent, fearing the zombie's attack power, dared not linger under the tower and easily cleared all the minion waves to prevent the tower from being pushed.

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

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

However, immediately after, T1's "operations" also began.

Ten and a half minutes in.

T1 continued to give up the second small dragon, using it to trade for resources in the upper half of the map.

Their thinking was very clear: just drag it out!

The small dragon is a "long-term gain" and has no direct economic benefit—so they used the early small dragons to trade for economy, waiting for the key carry's equipment to be ready, so that they would have stable certainty in team fights.

But V5 also had its own lineup methods.

That is the jungle-mid synergy of hunting in the jungle!

The combination of the Blind Monk and Nidalee has truly too strong combat power in the jungle, and their arrest ability is extremely exaggerated; basically, appearing in their vision is somewhat dangerous.

T1's entire team benefited from wise resource trading and protected the development of their two carries, but they simply couldn't take care of the jungle.

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

It wasn't until nearly 12 minutes in.

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

And.

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

At 13 minutes, the Blind Monk and the Deceiver were pushing the lane in the bottom lane.

Because Ye Bo hadn't built any magic resistance, although the Blind Monk was better developed, the Deceiver absolutely had room for operation.

There was a possibility of "mutual annihilation" between the two sides.

Li Xianghe really wanted to find an opportunity for his team on the side lane and played very proactively.

But this was clearly a bit of not learning his lesson.

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

It was just that after exchanging a wave of health, the scene repeated itself once more.

There were no "fancy" secret techniques.

The person was faster than the Q; it could be said to be "muscle" that was pure 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 the Q was fired, 【Distortion】 had already been used.

However, that Sonic Wave seemed to be a little bit "crooked"!

The conventional operation of Q first, then W to ward-hop and R is not valid—because the W displacement speed is only slightly faster than Q, but R still has a 0. -second casting animation, which cannot be connected.

So it must be "Q-Flash" + "Small-angle R" + "Short-distance W-ward"—letting the Q be fired in place, using the end of the Q skill to compensate for the 1200-yard distance to "chase" the 700-yard distance of W, only then is it possible to achieve it.

This still had no outrageous mechanics, just the purest "technique"!

When the Blind Monk W-ward-hopped and flashed to the side of the Deceiver's face, Distortion had already jumped, but it was immediately interrupted by a horizontal kick!

And the direction he was kicked flying was exactly the direction the Sonic Wave had been kicked out.

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

"My goodness! A solo kill! And it's a triangle kill!!"

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

"This is just too cool!"

The purest muscle confrontation made all three LPL commentators unable to help but slap the table and cheer.

【CIN!!! NAB!!!】

【The tadpole is talking!!!】

【No way??? Master Ye, how about we use some outrageous mechanics instead? I can still steal some things with that, but this one, I really can't learn it, damn it!!】

【If Big O is a jock, then Master Ye is a proper muscle man! Ye-wazegger!】

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

【Sigh, I can only say Feifei is getting old. If it were him ten years ago, he definitely would have been able to react~~~】

Li Xianghe sat on his chair expressionless, appearing as if he had not been affected at all.

But looking closely at the fingers switching screens with F123, they were clearly using a lot of force, and the protruding joints of his palms seemed slightly red and swollen.

The T1 fans in the audience also suddenly fell silent.

And the LCK commentary desk could only try their best to downplay this solo kill to reduce the impact on their side's morale.

"To be honest, this kill is very dry..."

"The Blind Monk burning a Flash for a solo kill actually isn't profitable at all. Wait until the third soul-point dragon, he won't be able to kick people well!"

The Roaring Emperor skillfully changed the subject: "Earlier, V5 relied on the second Vanguard Commander to crash into the middle lane's first tower, finally opening up some economic gap, and this solo kill only brought the gold difference between the two sides to 3. 6k, not even 4k yet!"

"T1 obviously has no reason to give up the third dragon, especially since the ADC equipment gap is very small; T1's forbearance over the previous several waves will surely pay off!"

(End of this chapter)