Chapter 244: Brain-opening true 72 transformations

After Neeko completed the counter-kill, she relied on the ultimate's AOE to clear the wave and retreated.

Li Xianghe watched the opponent turn back from a melee minion, naturally thinking through how she completed this "stealing the sky and changing the sun" in front of his face, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

This wave was their lack of importance to the new version of Neeko, just relying on the omission of "experience."

In fact, the focus of the new version of Neeko's rework is "Transformation," so there is a small optimization for the W skill, the clone from "disappears as soon as it takes damage" -> "delays disappearance when taking damage."

This subtle deviation was not written in the update announcement, clearly it is only possible to discover the difference after practicing enough games.

If he had known, when Galio's W finished sucking but only revealed one person, he should have already been suspicious.

At this time.

On the high platform, there was a person excitedly standing up and supporting the edge of the platform, the corners of his mouth rising wildly, just short of putting his hands on his hips.

"F*ck." KC brother couldn't help but turn his head and ask.

"CT! Was this intentional, or accidental?"

CT brother's expression at this time was simply incomparably similar to a certain expression pack in the Chinese internet anti-Japanese theme, full of pride.

In fact, this was really an "easter egg" he specially designed.

He didn't hope that the so-called "transformation" was just changing an appearance—actually, the mechanism that Ye Bo had used in the previous version that could inherit {Homeguard} movement speed was to his liking, only thinking that that was called a game easter egg!

It's just a pity that that set of mechanisms was still too perverted in actual combat, and the effect of maintaining the Homeguard effect throughout was simply unmatched in support—in the end, it was collectively denied by the balance team.

So CT brother came up with the "characteristic" that Neeko could disguise some other things.

Just like the characteristic of minions as {non-hero units}!

CT brother was more excited than anyone else at the scene.

Even if he knew it could be like this early on, looking at the figure on the stage, he was full of even more appreciation—just because someone finally discovered the painstaking effort he buried!

"Is this also intentional?" Sanhuan brother saw the change in the live stream screen and also asked.

"Of course! Being able to inherit minions naturally can also inherit jungle monsters!" CT brother was immersed in stating his philosophy.

"We originally designed jungle monsters, setting Shadow Wolves and Raptors as two {speed-type} monsters, so thinking about 'using their' movement speed to hurry, isn't it a cool thing!?"

"However... why doesn't he back yet?"

In the live stream screen, Neeko retreated under the tower but didn't press back.

Instead, she walked into her own lower jungle and came to the Wolves.

As the designer, he originally thought the opponent wanted to use the Wolves' movement speed to back, hurrying quickly.

From the "name," it's actually not hard to see that the {base movement speed} of the Wolves and Raptors is the fastest of all jungle monsters—both have a full 493 yards, much faster than wearing Boots of Mobility!

Although it can't compare to the outrageous effect of extending Homeguard before, it is definitely a practical technique!

But what's strange is... Neeko didn't choose to back after imitating the Wolves.

Instead, she continued to head to the bot lane.

At the same time, Xin Zhao, who saw that the big brother in the mid lane didn't back, also specially didn't back directly after hitting Gromp, and went to the bot lane again.

"What are Xun and Master Ye doing!? Is it a rhythm change to the bot lane!?"

"This four-protect-two shouldn't be able to dive, right??"

"Xin Zhao's status is very residual! Neeko, although health is kept quite well, has no skills, and doesn't have much mana!"

How you look at this, it's a bit unreasonable.

At first glance, it seems the timing is very clever.

Neeko relies on the extremely fast movement speed of turning into Wolves, suddenly changing rhythm to the bot lane, and then "hiding" in the minion pile to catch the T1 bot lane by surprise.

The jungler died, Galio has no TP—Neeko using her own development to restrict Zeri is absolutely worth it!

After all, the entire T1 team is counting on Zeri, this "1."

But in fact, mid-jungle didn't replenish equipment, it's hard to have the ability to kill the opponent instantly under the tower, and it's very likely to be exchanged for kills.

If it's just exchanging kills with Zeri, or even being exchanged for more kills, accelerating Zeri's development, it's undoubtedly very lossy.

And Li Xianghe at this time just pushed the minion wave into the tower, hesitating whether to threaten the mid lane plating.

But found that Neeko didn't TP out immediately.

If it were someone with a simpler mind, perhaps they wouldn't think so much, just thinking the opponent was waiting for money to buy equipment in the fountain.

But Li Xianghe is different.

Especially since he was just "tricked" by the opponent, he is in the moment of being most suspicious, and several ideas immediately appeared in his mind.

'Pretending to be the second wave of mid-lane minions approaching, letting the jungler detour to catch himself?'

'Or...'

Scanning the map.

Looking at the Draven who was clearly starting to press forward and trade health extremely proactively, and the bot lane where both sides were not full, and the Jayce who seemed to be constantly pressing forward in the top lane...

Li Xianghe's awareness exploded, and a terrible idea suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Youqi, retreat, prepare to TP to look at the bot!"

"Bot lane, save health, don't trade health again! The opponent's mid-jungle might not really have gone home!"

His reminder played a role.

Because both bot lanes didn't participate in the small dragon, Draven had already worn down some of the bot lane first tower's plating.

In order not to have plating eaten, the T1 bot lane duo also pressed forward without hesitation, anyway, they were also preparing to back.

But hearing the command, they immediately shrank into the tower, even abandoning the few minion waves that were still outside—Keria also immediately started counting the number of the opponent's minions.

Don't look at this "hiding minions gank" trick being played rotten in rank games.

During normal laning, if it's not consciously discovering that Neeko is miss and might have gank intent, who would pay attention to the number of minions as an instinct every wave?

Especially when multiple waves of minions are intersecting.

Galio immediately got up and rushed to the bot lane, and the Karma who was passionately pulling in the top lane also retreated back into the tower without looking back.

"Top laner retreated! Maybe discovered and wants to TP!" Sheng Qiang Ge saw Karma's move and shouted immediately.

"Galio also seems to be coming!" Xun glimpsed the movement toward the mid lane.

"Then dive directly!"

Ye Bo, who was hiding in the minion pile, no longer disguised, directly revealed his true body and pressed forward.

Above, Xin Zhao also walked out from the back to block the retreat.

"TTTT directly T!!" Li Xianghe saw this and shouted decisively.

Galio has no TP, and at the first moment, he doesn't have enough distance to jump the ultimate.

Although the top laner directly TP-ing might have the risk of being tricked into using Teleport, this wave must not have the slightest hesitation—the top lane can lose, but Zeri's development cannot have any problems!

Just because Li Xianghe's command was fast enough, and the execution of the entire T1 team was fast enough.

The bot lane minion wave hadn't entered the tower yet, and Karma would definitely be able to TP and land before the minion wave entered the tower, so as not to be preempted by the opponent and forcibly all-in killed Zeri!

"Zeus directly used TP to protect, then V5 should be able to retreat..."

"V5 wants to dive hard like this!? Hey, the wave hasn't come in yet!!"

What's strange is that the V5 bot lane four people didn't have a minion wave, directly entered the tower and started!

Clearly, they didn't want to wait for Karma's 4-second TP to land!

But the one resisting the tower was not the support Poppy—but Neeko, who walked into the tower first, first throwing a Q skill to deal damage to the two.

The other three V5 people rushed into the tower.

Poppy Flashed to adjust position and E-skill wall-stunned Zeri, Xin Zhao's spear stabbed out, Draven's Blood Rush held double axes forward.

Gumayusi immediately used Cleanse to solve it, and his thinking was very clear.

He knew that his teammates were all on the way, and the opponent all had Flash, no matter where he Flashed, he would definitely be chased by Flash—so he simply Flashed backward, running to the deep inside of the defensive tower!

This Flash landing point, although Draven could still attack, Xin Zhao and Poppy were opened up at the first moment.

However, the V5 group's intention was clear, Xin Zhao directly Flashed to connect the three-stage claw strike to pick up and connect the spear like a dragon!

Yuumi cast her whole body to save the mount, pressing QEDF to actively get off the car and want to use her body to help the AD attract firepower.

But clearly, it was of no avail!

The four people hit full damage, 3 seconds was enough to kill Zeri, who was in poor status because of being unconvinced by the health trade.

Xin Zhao finally retracted his spear at the limit, giving the kill to Draven.

"Caught up to killing Zeri before Karma landed! Nice!" Guan Zeyuan stared closely at the change in the chaotic battle: "In this case, even if Neeko dies resisting the tower, it's just a defensive tower kill! V5 made a huge profit!"

"Hey?" Jide widened his eyes: "How can V5 still! Still want to kill Yuumi!"

"So greedy... people are on the way!" Rita was confused.

Yuumi actively came out before, as one of the heroes with the lowest base and growth health in the league, facing the three strong men on her face, it was simply like a piece of paper, and her health was falling extremely fast.

But the problem is, TP will land in one second, and Galio's ultimate is also on the way!

Continuing to greedily kill Yuumi is clearly very likely to be exchanged for kills!

However, because Galio's ultimate only has 4

And this was the command Ye Bo made after judging the distance in his heart, as he understood Galio very well.

Zeus's Karma lands.

First, he puts an E shield on the Yuumi, then hits the three people outputting damage in their faces with an RQ, while simultaneously tethering Zhao Xin with his W chain!

His tactical decision was clearly very wise.

Neeko, who was tanking the tower at the edge, would definitely have to leave the tower to swap out soon, and Zhao Xin under the tower no longer had Flash; Karma would inevitably be able to keep the opponent under the tower!

At the very least, they were guaranteed to trade for one kill.

If the opponent even tried to save Zhao Xin and help tank, they might even be able to keep several people!

"Yuumi wants to attach, but is blocked by Poppy's intentionally held Steadfast Presence! Keria is going to suffer heavy too!"

"But Galio is coming!"

It was impossible for top lane Karma to max E first; the shield value in the early game was a mere 80 points, and the Yuumi, blocked by Poppy's W, was still cut down by Draven's axe for a double kill!

But Galio finally arrived in range.

He jumped, aiming at the location of Yuumi's corpse, which was also the spot where the three opponents were gathered!

And by this time, 7 seconds had passed since the V5 members made their move.

Everyone's attention had been focused on the center of the tower-diving firepower, and it seemed they had all somewhat overlooked something.

When Karma's spirit chain tightened and Galio's ultimate jumped, everyone wanted to see how many V5 members would be left behind, only to suddenly discover—how was everyone's status still so healthy!?

Zhao Xin even had more health than when he started, because he had killed two people!

Looking back again.

A "Cannon Minion" was actually still tanking the tower.

"How is Neeko still tanking the tower!?" The Roaring Emperor's voice was so shocked it was almost shrill.

"How long has he been tanking for! This isn't right!!!"

From T1's perspective, they could only see a cannon minion with at least 40% of its health bar remaining, lingering at the side edge of the defensive tower.

But in the observer perspective, one could clearly see the two {overlapping health bars} after Neeko transformed, dropping in sync—and the health bar representing Neeko's actual health still had nearly one-third left.

You have to know that due to the defensive tower's "heating damage increase" mechanism, a standard full-health level six squishy mage would die after tanking for at most 4-5 seconds!

Yet at this moment, Neeko had been tanking for at least 7 seconds, and he wasn't even at full health before starting.

"You guys retreat downwards, split up and run!"

Seeing Galio's ultimate land, Ye Bo immediately commanded them to disperse and flee.

He himself went alone, sticking to the wall away from the main battlefield, and walked toward the direction of the opponent's jungle.

Zhao Xin was kept under the tower by the chain, then knocked up by Galio's landing; he would likely have taken the full Galio control chain and found it hard to escape... Neeko could only tank the tower for two more hits at most.

And more importantly, Karma's sustained combat ability was not weak.

The Enlightened One's passive, 【Gathering Fire】, reduces the ultimate's cooldown by 4 seconds for every enemy hero damaged—and having just hit all three with an RQ under the tower, and triggered W twice, the ultimate was about to refresh!

The status of the two V5 bot lane members couldn't be considered particularly good either; if everyone ran together, it might instead give T1 a chance to chase and kite.

In the end, they would still have to sacrifice someone to stay behind, no difference.

And Neeko, walking alone toward the front side of the tower at this moment, was clearly using his physical body to attract firepower, forcing T1 to immediately make a choice between the two.

T1 had only two people left; on one side was the heavily damaged Neeko, and on the other were the three who were all still above half health, so they clearly didn't hesitate too much.

"Kill Neeko."

Galio held back his skills, and seeing Neeko, who had walked out of the tower along the wall, throw an E, he stepped up and countered with an E to cancel the control.

Zeus's Karma, meanwhile, moved coquettishly, twisting his body laterally to dodge.

"Master Ye sacrificed himself! In that case, the three below can all retreat!"

"But Neeko probably won't be able to run either; Karma also has Flash, and he didn't need to use Flash at all this time, it doesn't matter if he dies!"

"Master Ye probably made this sacrifice thinking that he had TP and that a 1-for-1 trade to get back to lane wasn't a loss, no problem there!"

Ye Bo indeed thought so.

However, he hadn't completely given up yet.

Before entering the brush, he first placed a fake ward "in front of himself," then the moment he entered the brush, he W-ed into two clones—one running toward the tri-brush, and one continuing to run toward the opponent's jungle.

"Look at the one inside!"

Li Xianghe was certain the opponent would definitely run back, but at this time, he naturally couldn't gamble.

Galio stepped to the right, adjusted his orientation, and fired a precise Winds of War from a distance; after a short delay, he saw the clone in that direction die!

Karma then immediately and firmly pursued to the left!

Galio, without Flash, naturally didn't need to pursue, so he turned to clear the vast number of minion waves under the tower, which counted as not coming for nothing.

Although Neeko managed to pull away some distance by relying on the W speed boost, Karma's E, with its shorter cooldown, could continuously gain speed; the opponent would definitely not be able to pull away later, it was just a matter of whether or not to trade Flashes.

No matter how you looked at it, Neeko running here was already doomed to die!

And the reason Ye Bo chose to run here was also because he couldn't be sure if there were Blast Cones on the other side of the wall, so he detailedly didn't think about going over the wall.

The two, one chasing and one fleeing, had already passed the Krug camp.

Zeus, watching Neeko, who looked like he was trying to escape to his own high ground, only felt that the opponent was trying to stall for time to let the empty top lane Jayce eat more plating.

Fortunately, Karma's ultimate, 【Mantra】, had already refreshed!

The circular fan behind him glowed brightly, aiming at the Neeko in front, and he suddenly fired an RQ, 【Inner Flame】!

Neeko's health was already heavily damaged; let alone an RQ, even a normal Q would be enough to kill him.

But this RQ did not hit.

Because Neeko suddenly jumped in place—and then transformed into "a ward"!!

The ward that Neeko had specifically detailedly placed "in front of himself" when he entered the brush earlier was enough to complete the storage of "camouflage imitation" without stopping his footsteps.

And obviously, any LoL player knows that hero skills "cannot hit" stealth wards; only auto-attacks can "clear wards."

That Inner Flame just passed right over the top of that ward!

Zeus was stunned in place for a moment.

Immediately after, he saw the golden light of a Flash appear in front!

He immediately began to track the location of the Flash, only to find that it was actually under their own tier-two tower in the distance!?

"Where is Master Ye flashing to!"

"Wait, no? It seems he's not tanking the tower???"

"Oh! Oh, right! Defensive towers cannot attack wards!"

"The ward is TPing!!!"

Seeing the "TP ward" under their own tier-two tower clearly, Zeus was completely dumbfounded.

No way?

Can this hero even do that!?

However, even in the midst of extreme shock, Zeus's attention to detail remained meticulous; he didn't foolishly follow with a Flash over the wall—because at this moment he was at the thick end of the bottom tier-two tower wall, and a direct Flash would definitely hit the wall.

Karma, having quickly adjusted his position downward and then Flashed over the wall, immediately began to auto-attack to "clear the ward" upon landing.

But clearing a ward requires 3 auto-attacks.

And Karma, with 0.69% attack speed, needed 3.2 seconds to get off three auto-attacks, while killing Neeko would require at least 4 auto-attacks.

TP, however, has a 4-second channel time. This is why Ye Bo ran here; the thick wall point where Karma was just now was also a position he intentionally aimed for—even if the opponent hadn't used Q this time, Neeko would still have Flashed into the tower here.

Just because of this, he used the "wall-card Flash" long-distance displacement to stall the opponent.

Only with Neeko's remaining health and time was it enough to TP away!

If he had TPed anywhere else, Karma only needed to decisively Flash close, auto-attack three times to break the ward's camouflage, and then immediately follow up with a Q to complete the kill!

"The last auto-attack returned Neeko to his original form, but the four-second TP channel was already complete!"

"Neeko actually ran away!!!"

The LPL commentary desk cheered and jumped for joy.

Everyone let out an irrepressible, instinctive gasp.

At the last moment, before the defensive tower could finish locking on, Neeko had already TPed to their own nexus turret and taken the opportunity to quickly recall, landing safely.

"Too exaggerated! It's really too exaggerated!"

"So this is the new version of Neeko! The correct way to open the new version of Neeko is actually like this!"

"True metamorphosis! True whimsical ideas! True Inherent Glamour!!!"

In the director's replay, they specifically focused on the key points.

The reason Neeko was able to tank the defensive tower for so long earlier was because of the {Cannon Minion Talent Skill} he inherited after turning into a cannon minion—【Anti-Tower Socks】.

"This unit will have its health reduced by 14% each time it is shot by an outer tower, and it will not cause the defensive tower to 'overheat'—although it has a bit of an odor, the effect is outstanding."

Because minions themselves have 0 resistance, and the cannon minion Neeko turns into possesses his own armor as well.

So Neeko turning into a cannon minion can tank even better than a cannon minion itself!

In Ye Bo's testing, a level 1 Neeko could already tank 8-9 defensive tower attacks... which is a full nearly 12 seconds of time!

12 seconds is enough to TP three times.

As for the subsequent transformation into a ward to dodge skills and Flashing into the tower without aggro, these are actually all very "obvious" principles.

But they definitely all make people feel like a hole has been opened in their brains!

【The person who discovered this mechanism is truly a 24k pure genius!!!】

【Minion: Something's not right! There's an imposter among us!】

【Neeko, you can be whoever you want to be!】

【Hey hey hey, that's a foul! Changing shapes all over Summoner's Rift!】

【Who said the new version is Demon Little Neeko? This is the Great Sage Equaling Heaven! This is what you call true 72 Transformations!】

【It's too outrageous, who exactly said this thing was trash? Isn't this just a mechanism monster!?】

【I think this is definitely a bug, no matter how you look at it, it's too cheeky, League of Legends designers!!!】

Let alone the live stream room.

Even the three people on the podium were clearly a bit stunned.

"What the f*ck holy crab!" Brother KC calmed down for a long time before subconsciously swearing again: "What is this situation!?"

This time, even the usually calm Brother Sanhuan's voice was somewhat shocked.

He turned his head to look at the person in the middle, who was also opening his mouth wide in an O shape.

"This, was this also intentional on your part?"

The culprit fell into silence.

This, I didn't expect this either!

Brother CT did indeed "specifically set" mechanism principles such as using minions to dodge skills, using minion attack speed, and even using jungle monster movement speed to travel.

But he really didn't expect the later part about using a cannon minion to tank the tower, transforming into a ward to dodge skills, and transforming into a ward to enter the tower and TP!

One hundred percent, he really didn't expect it!

After all, if the original rework plan had included such a "subjective program," it would likely have been very difficult to pass the "balance team's" review—but it just so happened that the mechanism perfectly matched the principles he had envisioned!

Everyone could see the significance of this move.

The practical significance was visibly huge!

Neeko was originally an AP hero full of "non-targetable skills"; once the skills were thrown, there was no need for any sustained combat.

And after throwing the skills, transforming into a cannon minion that can tank the defensive tower for 12 seconds to cooperate with teammates to dive the tower...

Defensive tower, can that still be called a defensive tower?

The commentary desks on both sides soon realized this point too.

"It's over... things are looking bad!" The Roaring Emperor felt his voice even carried a hint of sobbing: "With the top laner TPing over like this, Jayce directly enjoyed eating two and a half layers of plating! Draven also picked up a double kill!! Zeri was also dived!!!"

"This bot lane laning phase is directly over! Completely over! The jungler has no way to come and help at all!"

"After this wave, T1 is actually a bit blown up!"

"More importantly, what to do next... what to do about this Neeko!?"

This wave was really too painful for T1.

It wasn't just that they didn't save the AD, Draven got a payout and it was even a double kill, they didn't trade for a single kill, and the top and mid laning phases were indirectly ruined together...

More importantly, Galio's ultimate was used up.

Galio's usage rate in this version isn't high, precisely because the level one ultimate has been weakened; the 180-second, full three-minute cooldown is on par with Twisted Fate, and his early game support ability is no longer that strong.

And Galio not having lane priority means he can't move at all within 3 minutes.

So, with Nocturne's development ruined, even if he reaches level six... does he dare to fly alone to gank bot?

Zeri and Yuumi's laning phase is already relatively weak.

Nocturne flying to the bot lane is simply asking to give away a triple kill!

V5's bot lane directly cleared away all threats and obstacles; Beryl didn't even roam anymore, the two of them laning was just outstandingly arrogant, they were practically playing on top of the opponent's heads!

At 8 minutes, due to the kill in the mid lane wave, Nocturne hadn't even reached level six yet, so the Rift Herald was naturally given up.

And T1's mid-jungle duo took advantage of the gap while Zhao Xin went to the bot lane to drop the Rift Herald, wanting to make a move on the mid lane.

However, the dark clouds above the canyon had just appeared, and the sound of Paranoia had just been transmitted—but the target figure in the mid lane had suddenly disappeared.

Neeko, right in front of Galio, transformed into a "minion" the moment the sound was transmitted.

The jungler went to the bot lane to drop the Rift Herald, the top laner was steadily leaning back, and Ye Bo naturally knew very well that the only opportunity the opponent could find was himself, so he had been "waiting for the dark" all along...

It was very obvious.

【Paranoia】 cannot target "minions."

"Oner's Nocturne missed his ultimate!!!" Barrier felt like he was going to laugh out loud on the commentary desk: "Galio's ultimate isn't ready yet, and Nocturne's ultimate has entered cooldown again!"

"The first tower in the bot lane fell in less than nine minutes!"

"Draven's development is truly too explosive! Now T1 doesn't have the slightest qualification to take a team fight!"

Recalling at 9 minutes, Draven pulled out 【Infinity Edge】 + 【B. F. Sword】.

All the Chinese server players felt their tiger bodies shake when they saw this scene...

【Damn it!! Was the protein powder in the thermos replaced with O-Pao fruit milk again today!?】

【Ho ho~ Brother is coming! I feel like I've seen a Draven with this kind of development before~】

【Brother is who? Forget about Vincent, this game is clearly JackeyLove! Open your eyes and see whose Draven skin this is!】

【I can only say, being Master Ye's ADC is truly too happy, it really doesn't matter who it is, this kill is damn well fed into the mouth, pure enjoyment!】

【Heh, Pilot's Draven, he will feed!】

Facts proved that Deft's Draven was actually more stable.

To be fair, a super-fed Draven and a normal Draven are absolutely two different heroes.

A super-fed Draven is completely a hero that "anyone can play," there really isn't much to operate... instead, it's more afraid of people who "want to operate" and rush in to feed!

As long as he's slightly stable.

Anyway, one axe from Draven can cut nearly a quarter to a third of a health bar, there's no chance to fight back at all!

At 11 minutes, all three of T1's outer towers fell.

And in just 14 minutes, the gold difference had already flown to the sky.

The reason was that, entering the lane transition phase, the people T1 left to defend the side lanes to eat "dangerous waves" would always be led by Neeko to complete a tower-dive kill!

They couldn't survive under the tower at all!

【Genius! Genius! He is a genius!!!】

After Zeus's Karma bought 【Shurelya's Battlesong】 as his first item, he directly bought a 【Support Income Item】.

The whole team poured all their economy into Gumayusi.

And if it hadn't been so ruined earlier—Zeri, who reached the mid-game "I eat all three lanes alone," would definitely have been able to take off rapidly and carry the game under the protection of double supports + double protection!

But at this moment, no matter how they poured it in, it seemed they couldn't catch up to Draven's pace at all.

And with Neeko's existence, it seemed even T1's side lane operations had become extremely difficult.

16 minutes.

V5 took the third fire dragon and arrived at the mid lane with the second Rift Herald.

"Fortunately, it's still early! V5's composition actually isn't good at diving towers!" The Roaring Emperor was still nervously devising strategies: "Neeko's tower tanking is useless in a frontal team fight! It's very easy to be engaged on and kept!"

"Guma is developing rapidly, although the fire dragon soul fight is hard to take, but with this composition, as long as we develop for a while longer, we definitely have..."

"Ye, what is he trying to do again!"

Seeing that V5 didn't directly crush the Herald's eye, T1 guessed that the opponent was probably preserving the Herald's health to use it to push directly to the high ground.

Of course, they couldn't let V5 have their way smoothly.

Once the mid lane high ground was broken, T1 would completely lose all space for kiting side lane resources, and even pouring in economy would become difficult to achieve!

Both sides of the wall were filled with vision, and the right side was even filled with wards in the brush and passageways, not giving any space for flanking.

"Count the minions, watch the mini-map!"

Li Xianghe commanded hurriedly and loudly, randomly brushing back his bangs; his fluctuating emotions seemed to make even the back of his hands tremble slightly.

"Neeko isn't in the front, don't let him sneak in!"

"We still have a chance if they dive the tower, the opponent's composition doesn't have a tower tank, it's fine if Zeri trades for a kill!"

But just as T1 was nervously setting up their defense.

Under the god's-eye view.

Neeko, all by himself, had already quietly bypassed the jungle and arrived behind the blue side's tier-two tower, in the passageway under the high ground wall.

There were no wards placed here, and there was no reason to place wards—because the vision behind the tier-two tower was enough to see the intersection; clearly, there was no position for Neeko to sneak a win here.

But Ye Bo's next action made the pupils of everyone in the observer perspective widen sharply.

"He bounced up!?"

"Hey, how! Can't they see him!!!"

In a version update three years ago, the Fire Dragon Soul Canyon added a feature that "would generate 【Blast Cones】 in the side lane high ground corridors."

This was originally a change that no one cared about... but at this moment, Neeko was riding one of the cones here to fly onto the blue side's high ground!

Of course, under normal circumstances, as soon as one bounced over the wall, the blue side would be able to see all the vision information on their own high ground.

A red icon would also appear on the mini-map accordingly.

So when Neeko auto-attacked to detonate the cone, he completed a monstrously difficult "mid-air transformation" in the air ahead of time!

In fact, mid-air transformation is the true core difficulty of this wave—because Neeko being in a {knock-up} state would instantly break his {camouflage} state, and once he enters a {knock-up} state, his {camouflage} ability is also instantly disabled!

This is not the simple "A + Blast Cone" of the past.

It is in the true sense, needing to be timed to the "frame," giving the transformation command at the very instant of being knocked up by the Blast Cone to complete the mid-air transformation.

If this Neeko hadn't been using the 【Mountain and Sea Scrolls】 skin, and hadn't been blessed with Akali's operational style, Ye Bo might have found it difficult to complete it in one go... Of course, in that case, he could have just treated it as a forced flank to start a team fight, with Flash and Zhonya's in hand, he wouldn't have panicked at all.

And the object of the transformation was a Blast Cone.

No matter if Neeko turned into a "ward," a "minion," or a "jungle monster"—a small red dot would immediately appear on T1's mini-map, which would inevitably be enough to alert the highly vigilant group.

But there were no prompts on T1's mini-map.

Because a "cone" is not an enemy unit.

Not only would there be no markings on the map, but even passing minions wouldn't be attracted to it, and the defensive tower couldn't possibly lock onto it either!

"Watch out behind you T1!!!"

The heart-wrenching shouts couldn't reach the ears of the T1 members.

And a Blast Cone had already moved along the wall, silently arriving at the corner of the high ground wall.

All of T1 were nervously counting the minion waves together, observing the movements on the mini-map—the screen size is limited, who would switch screens to look at their own high ground at a time like this!?

Not even screen-switching maniac Li Xianghe would.

"Engage! Pull back!"

Poppy charged up her ultimate, rushing over from the right side!

All of T1 instinctively pulled to the left rear, and Li Xianghe even actively pressed forward, preparing to use control to cancel Poppy's hammer.

But at this moment, Poppy used B to recall, canceling the ultimate's cast.

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Just when everyone was full of confusion.

Keria, who had retreated and dragged his screen to the back, seemed to catch a glimpse of something appearing in the bottom left corner of his screen.

"What is th—"

"Hey!!!"

The next moment, the cone, having channeled for half a second, revealed its true form in the air, R + Flash + Protobelt to dash forward!

"Blast Cone's High Ground Bloom!"

Poppy's ultimate was clearly just to threaten their positioning; canceling the ultimate was to avoid firing and knocking the opponent away to "save them."

A scene of destruction appeared.

The expressions of the five people who had the bloom sit on their faces were incredibly wonderful, and the scene instantly erupted with a wave of screams!

"Pizza!!!!!"

Neeko flanked and engaged all five, already pronouncing the outcome of the team fight.

The new version of Neeko is indeed a bit lacking in damage in the early game, but that's because the base values were moved to the AP scaling; once items are built, the damage is only higher, not lower, than the old version!

And there is also a very important change—the ultimate changed from the old version's 1.5-second stun to first knocking up for 0.6 seconds, then stunning for 0.75 seconds.

Gumayusi, with his lightning-fast reactions, instinctively pressed Cleanse, but not knowing who he was imitating, he used Cleanse to remove the knock-up~

Jayce fired a cannon, and Draven simultaneously flew his ultimate axe to slash.

Directly exploding Zeri in mid-air!

Neeko landed face-to-face and used QE skills to harvest the battlefield, Draven entered the fray and took one with every blade!

In the blink of an eye, blood splattered everywhere.

T1 was wiped out!

"In that case... the mid lane high ground is definitely going to..." The Roaring Emperor's hoarse vocal cords carried a sorrowful tone, but suddenly stopped abruptly.

Because he seemed to have suddenly realized something.

At the same time, the two people sitting next to him also shivered, as if they had also suddenly realized something and looked at the time in unison.

Tier-two tower pushed down, Rift Herald dropped.

It crashed into the mid lane high ground, taking away more than half its health, then crashed into the barracks.

V5's members indeed didn't retreat at all, they were still advancing, rushing toward the two exposed nexus turrets.

"Could it be? Could it be!?"

"V5 seems to really want to end it in one wave!!"

"There are still twenty-something seconds left! It seems there's really a chance!!!"

Jayce, Zhao Xin, and Draven, three AD heroes, are all top-tier at pushing towers, and they had the Rift Herald assisting them to continue the charge.

The Herald crashed and broke one nexus turret.

It continued to crash into the second one.

When the exposed crystal appeared, the person on T1 who would revive the fastest still had 7 seconds left, and everyone in front of the screen had an indescribable expression on their faces...

16 minutes and 43 seconds.

T1's crystal was smashed to pieces by the five of them, while the Rift Herald, with a sliver of health left, danced a happy dance in place...

(End of chapter)