Chapter 250: Human Separation Art! A Miraculous Second Split! Reversing the Aerial Acrobat!

The tower dive in the bottom lane completely overturned Gen's assessment of the defensive posture for this game.

Peanut had firmly believed the jungle was stabilized, even having stolen a small resource advantage. Suddenly, he realized what kind of defensive pressure a support Nidalee would bring to the bottom half of the map!

Facing the two long-range champions in the V5 bottom lane, it was impossible to maintain safe health levels indefinitely.

And as soon as health dropped, the bottom lane would be at risk of being dived!

Vi was forced to abandon the idea of invading the Nidalee jungle, having no choice but to contract her defensive line to guard the bottom half.

This jungle pathing, which bordered on being an open book, meant that although Nidalee didn't gain a direct advantage from "counter-jungling," she ultimately secured jungle initiative!

"It's fine if I lose some development early on, let's wait for the dragon," Peanut commanded in a magnanimous, deep voice.

"Our mid-laner is very strong at level six; we can fight for it. If we take one dragon, we can drag the game out."

Just as the casters on the desk had just said.

While Gen's lineup was indeed skewed toward the mid-to-late game, this by no means meant they lacked combat power in the early game.

It wasn't just that K'Sante's level-six combat power was unquestionable, but also because Sylas's level-six power spike in this matchup was not significant.

Because there wasn't much worth stealing.

K'Sante's 【All-Out】 had been given "specific designated terms" in an update, and its text description was a "K'Sante" exclusive effect—similar to how "Sylas stealing Nasus's ultimate doesn't halve the Q cooldown because the text describes it as 'Siphoning Strike'."

Therefore, Sylas stealing K'Sante's R was almost a "pure blank" skill!

It neither enhanced his Q, W, or E skills in the slightest, nor did it refresh any skills. Of course, it also didn't cause health loss or reduce dual resistances.

The mere 80 points of fixed damage were effectively useless!

The most fatal part was that Sylas, after all, lacked K'Sante's heaven-defying tankiness and dual resistance scaling; charging into a crowd in All-Out form was basically an instant death sentence.

Vi's ultimate lock-on had similar drawbacks.

Although it looked very powerful, it also required Sylas to charge into the crowd with his "physical body," making him very prone to being blown up.

In this game, only Nautilus's ultimate was good, with Ornn's being second, but neither was enough to bring about a qualitative change.

"Gen has managed to stabilize their early bottom and jungle disadvantage, with the gold gap consistently kept under 1k." The Roaring Emperor scanned the mini-map, suddenly seeing a purple flash of light appear!

"Oh! Ornn's TP!"

"It looks like Gen wants to all-in on the dragon!"

As the number one seed, besides their "Civil War King" attribute from top to bottom, Gen naturally had their own "signature moves."

Simply put—even in the LCK, a region known for its operations, no one knew how to play the turtle better than them!

The so-called turtle formation wasn't just about avoiding fights, farming, and waiting for the two carries to farm minions.

The essence lay in how to drag the game into a predetermined point in time!

Gen had quite a bit of experience in this regard, either by maneuvering through individual player mechanics or by leveraging the lineup's brief power spikes at "specific times" to seize key resources or defensive capital.

Just like right now.

Everyone knew Gen's lineup favored the mid-to-late game and should choose to avoid fights and farm early on.

But Gen believed that with K'Sante's level-six combat power, a 4v4 was already winnable, and to be absolutely sure, they didn't hesitate to call their top-laner down, all to firmly control a dragon!

The logic was also very direct.

As long as they could secure one dragon, the dragon soul fight would at the earliest happen after 26 minutes.

By then, the vast majority of core carries would have their items completed, and Gen would have no fear of the opponent forcing a fight, allowing them to calmly drag the game into their own rhythm!

Besides, if they didn't fight now with V5's lineup... were they supposed to hard-contest the Rift Herald at 8 minutes against a Renekton?

Therefore, Gen's choice here, while seemingly abrupt, actually highlighted their keen insight as the Turtle King, as well as the team's tacit understanding in this regard.

If V5's collaboration excelled at "offense"—Gen's collaboration was refined in "defense"!

"You can't TP to wards before 14 minutes, so if V5's top-laner rushes to join the fight, he can't possibly reach the battlefield in time!"

"Not to mention V5 has a Renekton, a hero who cannot afford to fall behind. Ornn losing a bit of lane pressure is harmless; Gen's timing here is captured to perfection!"

After both top-laners recalled, Ornn TP'd directly to the tier-two tower behind his own mid-lane, then quietly approached the river from his own bottom jungle.

At first, Ornn didn't show himself at all, wanting to wait for his teammates to get into position and start the dragon before appearing, so that Renekton would definitely not have time to TP to a defensive tower and walk over, allowing Gen to force the dragon with a numbers advantage!

V5 was naturally hard-pressed to detect this.

With Saint-Slayer choosing Renekton, he couldn't actively TP away from his development; he had to maintain his lane advantage to secure the Rift Herald, which was imperative once Renekton was picked.

But, just as everyone in the bottom half of the map began to move.

Vi, relying on a ward placed over the wall at the edge of the opponent's jungle earlier, suddenly saw Nidalee's silhouette and sensed an opportunity!

"Nidalee's here!"

"Cui Xuanjun, come kill him first!"

Although Peanut's mechanics had become increasingly desperate over the years, the positive benefits brought by age had also helped him grow significantly in seizing opportunities and experience.

Clearly, Gen's tactic here was mainly for strategic gain; in terms of resource trading, it certainly couldn't be called very profitable.

Even after taking the dragon, if K'Sante TP'd to the top lane to defend the wave, Renekton could at least take two plating stacks, and it almost meant the Herald fight was already conceded.

But what if they could secure a kill while taking the dragon, or even further expand their jungle and side-lane advantage?

Then the ownership of the Herald would still be up in the air!

To take a step back, even if they just caught Nidalee, even if they couldn't get the kill, they could at least cripple the jungler—then even if V5 realized it and immediately had Renekton TP over, the dragon would still be contested with a numbers advantage!

A heavy sheep's bleat tore through the silence of the bottom half of the canyon.

Nidalee, having just finished her F6s and about to approach the dragon pit to set traps, was suddenly shocked to see the molten sheep spirit appear out of thin air behind her!

"Holy crap, how is Ornn here!"

"I can TP, I can TP!!" Saint-Slayer rapidly switched screens to find a landing spot.

"Don't TP, don't TP, just bring it, bring it!" Ye Bo immediately spoke up to stop him.

Ye Bo knew that by the time Renekton's 4. -second TP landed and he ran from the tower into the jungle, the fight would have long been over!

Ornn's first cast of 【Call of the Forge God】 had a range of 2500 yards, starting from the tail end; it just happened to cover from the entrance of Doran's own jungle to the entrance of the enemy's jungle!

Nidalee was slowed and marked {Brittle} by the roaring molten elements, and Vi, charging her punch below, had also appeared menacingly!

"Nidalee's Flash isn't up yet!"

In the previous wave, Nidalee had used her Flash to chase down Jinx—and Ornn's second-stage sheep's range doubled to 5000 yards; if Nidalee ran straight toward the back of the F6 entrance, she absolutely couldn't escape the coverage area.

However, Xun's first reaction wasn't to retreat.

He actually moved forward, as if wanting to hug the wall.

Peanut naturally saw the opponent's intention: "He's going to jump the wall!"

On the wall above the Red buff, there was a spot where Nidalee could jump over, though the failure rate was quite high.

The experienced Peanut, seeing this, was not in a hurry to use 【Vault Breaker】, clearly wanting to wait until after the jump to follow up, avoiding being forced to Flash over the wall.

Ye Bo had also seen the opponent jump from this position during scrims.

But at the same time, he also saw K'Sante, who had already walked out from the river entrance, and Ornn behind him preparing to follow up on the sheep, both eyeing them like tigers.

Thoughts flashed through Ye Bo's mind:

If he blocked Vi's pursuit, even if Nidalee could run, he would fall into a three-man encirclement, and all three opponents had Flash, making it hard to create distance.

But if he didn't save him, it would be hard to fight a 2v3 in this position.

Did he have to sacrifice Nidalee?

But Ye Bo paused for a moment, then still acted immediately.

He maneuvered Sylas to dash forward with his short E, then threw his E2 toward Vi while shouting simultaneously: "Xun, don't jump yet! Come here!"

Vi was interrupted mid-charge by the flying Sylas chain, and her Q skill entered a 3-second short cooldown.

And Nidalee, who was preparing to time the jump over the wall, heard this voice and immediately pressed the S key to emergency stop!

Xun instinctively took a step back, walking to the spot marked by the signal, just a line away from the wall.

"Although Sylas interrupted Vi's charge, K'Sante is here!!" Xu Xiu shouted excitedly from the caster desk.

Chovy clearly didn't want to play a lane-focused game against Ye Bo; K'Sante, carrying Aftershock, was in his element in the current skirmish, specifically hunting squishies!

K'Sante EW'd forward, using the "W double-dash over wall" mechanism to reach Nidalee in two steps. Although the W stun was blocked by Sylas's physical body, he still successfully entered the casting range of his ultimate.

He immediately threw away his tonfas, 【All-Out】 suddenly locking onto Nidalee!

Nidalee was almost at the distance of the wall; K'Sante could clearly drag her into the pit—and without Flash, Nidalee couldn't create distance. Upon landing, she would take the full burst of an Aftershock K'Sante, with zero chance of survival!

Even if Sylas flashed to pursue, the two teammates behind also had Flash; it would just be like catching a turtle in a jar.

This was K'Sante, the qualitative change in combat power at level six!

However, what appeared before them was a situation completely inconsistent with the image in everyone's mind!

K'Sante collided into the wall while carrying Nidalee's body, but just as Nidalee was halfway into the stone wall, she seemed to be "bounced" out by the wall.

But the former continued to charge forward with unstoppable momentum!

K'Sante landed menacingly in the Red buff pit, yet Nidalee remained outside the wall!!

It was like a performance of "Human Separation Art"!

"Ah!?" Chovy himself was stunned.

But he didn't have time to think.

The 2. -second duration of Aftershock was about to end—most critically, the "solo wall-crossing" of the ultimate now meant he had effectively separated himself from his teammates!

Nidalee, on the other side of the wall, got up, threw a spear, healed herself, and was coordinating with Sylas to beat up Vi, only saved by Ornn's second-stage sheep delaying things for a bit.

Chovy handled it decisively, immediately flashing over the wall, Q-Flash-Auto, followed by an instant W, grasping the final moment of {Aftershock} to unleash a terrifying instant burst with just two skills!

"How did K'Sante do that, wow! But this is K'Sante's damage!" Xu Xiu shouted, unable to contain his excitement.

"This hero's burst is just too unreasonable! It's even scarier than Sylas!"

However, Xun's Nidalee had kept her W skill unused; at this moment, she took a step downward and jumped over the extremely thick wall at a precise angle.

Peanut clearly had too much bloodlust; seeing the health bar was extremely low, he directly used Flash to chase hard.

And Sylas immediately flashed downward, following into the pit.

The originally clear battle situation instantly became blurred and complex.

"Because K'Sante strangely didn't bring anyone over the wall at the first moment, and had to burn Flash to follow up with damage, he can only take the long way around to chase from behind now!"

"This!? This should have been an excellent engage and a three-man-to-two-man collapse for GEN; the V5 mid and jungle should have had no way to escape. How did it suddenly turn into a 1v1v1v1 chase!?"

"Wait, a fight is breaking out in the bottom lane too!!"

At the bottom lane tri-brush, the two duos who arrived to support ran into each other and started brawling.

V5 originally had a pathing advantage in supporting their own jungle and should have been able to shake off the opponent to arrive first, but Nautilus cleverly used Hexflash over the thick tri-brush wall, forcing a displacement to pull himself over and pinning Neeko down!

Although this caused some disconnect, Nautilus was able to temporarily tank the two of them alone relying on Aftershock, fully demonstrating the hard-engage capability of a tank support.

Neeko had no Flash, so naturally, she couldn't ignore her AD and run away; the two were kept in place by Nautilus's E and the precise W from the arriving Jinx, leaving them no choice but to turn and kite while auto-attacking.

Neither side retreated.

Both sides knew that at the very least, they couldn't let the other side arrive to support first!

The chase inside the red jungle was like the path of a "Snake" game—Nidalee running in front, Vi sticking close behind, Sylas lashing out at their faces, while K'Sante and Ornn surrounded them from two different directions.

Nidalee was already at critical health from K'Sante's burst; one Q-Empowered Pummel would surely take her down, but Peanut couldn't find the angle for the punch!

Sylas was sticking tightly to Vi, and because Vi self-slows while charging her Q, she could never get past the person in her face.

Fortunately, Vi only needed to wait 4 seconds for her 【Relentless Force】 to come off cooldown to kill the sub-100 HP Nidalee with a shockwave!

"You guys chase, I'm going to help the bottom lane!" Seeing that the situation on the left battlefield was clear and that his Ornn—lacking an ultimate—would have a hard time chasing, Doran spoke up.

Ornn changed course at the fork in the road, heading straight for the raging battle in the tri-brush, preparing to ignite the flames of war in both locations simultaneously.

In reality, Ye Bo could have stolen Vi's ultimate at this moment to force a hold on her and save Nidalee.

But that would still result in him being dragged down by the opponent, and he would be in great danger once the K'Sante behind him arrived at the battlefield.

Nidalee's W cooldown is a long 6 seconds; after jumping over the wall, it was difficult to create distance.

But just then, Ye Bo noticed Ornn changing course from the right in his peripheral vision.

"Xun, run downwards!"

Nidalee immediately fled toward the direction of the bottom Krugs.

Sylas turned his head and threw out his stolen chains—the hijacked ultimate flying toward the pursuing K'Sante behind, then poked Vi with his W to adjust his positioning.

Peanut seemed to sense something.

But the next moment, the 【All-Out】 locked-on {Stun} mark appeared above his head, leaving him unable to move.

Sylas transformed into the image of K'Sante, the tonfas leaving his hands with immense force to seize Vi's body, slamming her fiercely into the thick wall!

And immediately following that,

The sound of two "Canyon Flyers" echoed through the jungle, a continuous, piercing whistle spreading for miles!

"Come kill this one!"

After a while.

Sylas carried Vi, crossing miles from the direction of their own second-tier tower—flying horizontally and smashing into the heart of the tri-brush!

Seeing the figure behind him, Deft immediately and skillfully placed a predictive trap at the landing point, waiting for Vi to land and be trapped in place, followed by a Headshot.

Vi had been chased and lashed by Sylas the whole time; now, instantly falling into the encirclement of three people, her feet stuck in the trap, even fighting back became a luxury as she died instantly!

The sudden turn of events shocked the entire arena!

"Aigoo!" The Roaring Emperor widened his eyes and leaned forward: "Sylas stole K'Sante's ultimate and actually air-dropped the opponent directly into another battlefield! Coordinating with the duo to take down Vi first!"

"The positioning situation seems to have changed again, this isn't right!!!"

"Who exactly has the extra person here!?"

The battlefield was split twice.

First, breaking out of a three-man-to-two-man collapse—now, the two battlefields have instantly crossed and merged into one!

K'Sante over there clearly couldn't catch Nidalee, and Ornn was still some distance away from the tri-brush; instead, it was Sylas who arrived first!

It was clearly GEN who had the extra person.

Yet, amidst the constant, dramatic, and bizarre twists, the scene gave one the illusion that it was V5 who had the extra person!

"Nautilus can't get away and is killed by Sylas! Viper can only decisively sacrifice his support to save his own life. Is it actually a zero-for-two trade against GEN!?"

"The most important thing is the top lane! Someone still has to defend the top lane!"

Although it was only a zero-for-two, V5's condition wasn't great either; even if it became a 3v4, they could try to defend the dragon with the combat power of K'Sante and Ornn.

But don't forget.

There is still a Renekton pushing the tower in the top lane!

Relying on Demolish, the Renekton had already eaten two plates; if the tug-of-war continued, it would undoubtedly be adding frost to snow, and with Teleport in hand, he could deter the remaining three members of GEN from daring to start the dragon!

K'Sante had no choice but to TP to the top lane as planned, and let Ornn cover the mid lane wave.

"Only two people left in the bottom half; Nidalee can restore her own state, and the four members of V5 are heading straight to the dragon to take it by force!" The Roaring Emperor's face was full of sorrow and bitterness.

"Why on earth did it turn out like this..."

The producer cut to the replay.

Earlier, GEN quietly letting Ornn come down was actually a successfully completed design. Then, Vi coordinating with Ornn's Call of the Forge God to catch Nidalee, and Sylas's E interrupting the charging Pummel—none of that had any problems.

Everyone looked at that first ultimate from Chovy's K'Sante—this was also the key turning point.

"You two! Why exactly did this happen? Why didn't Nidalee get pushed over!?" The Roaring Emperor looked at the two of them with extreme confusion.

Scout just shook his head in bewilderment.

In his entire professional career, he had never played a mid-laner like K'Sante; even though it was very popular this spring, he hadn't practiced it even once. LNG's poor performance in the spring split was also partly due to the meta mismatch.

"This seems to be the reason for Xun's adjustment in positioning!?" ShowMaker speculated with interest.

"Looks like he got stuck on the terrain?"

As everyone knows.

Except for special skills, normal heroes cannot stand "inside a wall," and heroes all have significant collision volumes.

The small step Ye Bo had Nidalee adjust earlier was exactly a spot that could be judged by K'Sante's ultimate as being pushed over the wall, but because the landing point was occupied by the model of the K'Sante who landed first, Nidalee had "nowhere to stay."

That was why she was "squeezed" out by the wall!

This forced K'Sante to burn Flash to get over the wall.

It was precisely this ultimate-separation technique that tore a hole in an otherwise unsolvable encirclement!

And when he saw that final All-Out state crossing 3000 yards, ShowMaker subconsciously held his head in his hands and sighed: "Aish! This is the real K'Sante ultimate!"

"Although everyone says stealing K'Sante's ultimate as Sylas is useless, this time, it was forcefully used by Ye as a super-long-range hard-CC displacement skill!"

"One ultimate, actually utilized to create two miraculous battlefield-splitting effects! Crazy!"

【The second person in the world who understands K'Sante gives a sincere evaluation to the first person who understands K'Sante!】

【1234, 1234567!】

【What the hell is Chovy doing? Does he even know how to play K'Sante!?】

【Hehe, it's useless for others to steal this ult, what does that have to do with Master Ye?】

【Remember when everyone said stealing Elise's ult was useless, and then he used a Rappel to dive in and kicked his brother to death! I can only say this is the gold content of Ye Zhantang!】

【Hello? Why isn't the Saint of Thieves talking anymore! You've been stunned by this roadside top-eight mid-laner who went one-and-done in the playoffs! Do you know what an absolute mid-lane core is!?】

After ShowMaker finished his inexplicable excitement, he suddenly remembered that the one who won a landslide victory wasn't his own team, and quickly restrained his smile.

From time to time, he would secretly glance at Scout, who was faintly gritting his teeth beside him.

The Roaring Emperor had no heart to care about their thoughts and was anxiously analyzing the battle situation for GEN.

"This is looking a bit bad!"

"Although it seems like only a zero-for-two, those two plates in the top lane are already worth another kill, plus the extra TP and Flash burned, as well as the dragon and the Rift Herald—there's no way they can contest the Herald."

"The upcoming defensive phase is a significant test for GEN; this Caitlyn system of V5 has quite a reputation in the LPL..."

Originally, GEN's "turtle formation" meant their abandonment of the Rift Herald was relatively meaningless.

This was mainly due to their laning ability in all three lanes; they generally wouldn't lose defensive tower health in normal laning, so even if they gave the Herald, it would at most be one head of plate gold, which wouldn't cause a rapid collapse of their tempo.

But this time.

Sylas happily ate two kills, not to mention that the mid-lane laning phase started to become difficult.

The defensive tower health in both the top and bottom lanes had become precarious, all at a level where one Herald charge could break them!

For GEN's defense, this was equivalent to having a crack opened in advance... and the most critical core objective, the dragon, hadn't even been secured!

At 8 minutes, V5's top, mid, and jungle started the Herald.

GEN naturally gave it up directly; Vi and K'Sante went to the bottom lane, wanting to try a 4-man dive.

But both Sylas and Renekton had TP.

Renekton burned his TP first to protect his teammates, while Sylas picked up the Eye of the Herald after finishing the Herald and then TP'd to the bottom lane, the four of them turning to launch a massive offensive to push down the bottom tier-one tower with the Herald!

"V5 takes advantage of GEN's four-man assembly to counter-attack! GEN can't fight head-on; Nidalee heads to the top lane to defend the tower, and Ornn in the top lane can't trade plates either!"

The Roaring Emperor made a prayer gesture at the commentary desk: "You must hold on, GEN! You absolutely cannot engage in any fighting at this time! This lineup cannot fight in the early game at all!"

"They can only believe in Viper, now they can only believe in Viper! If they can drag it to the mid-to-late game, Jinx still has a possibility of making plays!"

Aside from the short power spike at level six, GEN's lineup itself couldn't actively initiate fights and only wanted to drag it out to the growth phase.

But V5's offensive was clearly not that easy to avoid.

The highly advantaged Nidalee was chasing Vi around the jungle; Xun fully demonstrated what it means to "get cocky when ahead," munching on drunken peanuts!

K'Sante's laning also started to lose balance in health trades; no matter how high the hero's performance was, facing a Sylas with great items who could recover a considerable amount with a W-lash, it was hard to gain an advantage in trades.

Furthermore, Sylas's stable theft of the {Double-Lock} ultimate meant that in terms of roaming and ganking, he was basically in a state of "the King of Hell calling the roll," and with a huge advantage, he didn't fear the threat of diving in physically.

Most importantly, it was the unfolding of the Caitlyn system.

Caitlyn's positioning is actually very similar to heroes like Draven or Nidalee—if she fails to execute her intended tactics and lacks the support of sufficient item advantages, her performance in team fights is poor.

But once the tempo is successfully established, Caitlyn's extremely strong single-lane suppression and tower-pushing ability will rapidly tear the gold gap wide open!

Just look at the 16-minute mark.

Jinx, who was still going even with Caitlyn during the laning phase, found herself inexplicably trailing by 1. k gold in their matchup, despite Viper playing with maximum caution and giving no opportunities.

"We can't fight this wave yet, I'm going to the bottom lane to push a wave."

Chovy saw the second Rift Herald was about to respawn, and seeing that the other five members of the opposing team were not appearing in the middle lane, he figured they would likely go to start the Herald after pushing this wave.

Regardless, he held his Teleport, so he didn't linger at the middle inner tower with his teammates and headed directly toward the bottom lane, where the minion wave had already been pushed out quite far.

There was no help for it; having five people standing in the middle lane defending the tower wasn't a solution.

But it was clear that even while playing K'Sante, Chovy was still unwilling to accept losing too much gold.

This is purely a difference between players; for instance, when Ye Bo uses K'Sante, he often deliberately gives up gold.

This isn't because K'Sante doesn't need gold—it's just that compared to traditional carries, this hero's gold conversion rate isn't outstanding, making it a choice that leans toward maximizing team benefits.

However, this departure of K'Sante was where V5 found an opening.

Beryl had previously caused gasps throughout the arena by using the "Plant Hexflash" technique to go over a wall, completing a silent infiltration of the jungle.

Everyone knows that {Hexflash} cannot be moved during the casting process.

But in fact, as long as you transform the moment you cast Hexflash, you can perform a "Moving Hexflash."

The principle of this mechanism is that movement speed is restricted to 0 during Hexflash—but when Neeko transforms into a creature with 0 movement speed, it forces a base movement speed of 200 units (otherwise Neeko would be unable to move).

With two high-priority codes colliding, it was clear that Neeko's code was superior!

This bizarre mechanism was naturally discovered by Ye Bo, though he had now taught it to Beryl.

And through the convenience of the Moving Hexflash, Neeko could not only remain disguised as a plant the entire time without risk of exposure, but could also use Hexflash to cross walls that would otherwise require risking exposure to cross, making her infiltration angles even more bizarre and difficult to defend against!

Beryl was crouching in the jungle at this moment, with Nidalee behind him, having jumped over the wall after clearing vision, originally prepared to ambush some fated soul entering the jungle.

Instead, they saw K'Sante appear.

"K'Sante left, huh, this position feels..."

"We can try it!"

Ye Bo looked at the position and said affirmatively.

A plant quietly probed forward, while Nidalee followed, stealthily circling deep into the red side's jungle toward the rear of the enemy's middle inner tower.

Those watching from the spectator perspective couldn't help but hold their breath at this sight.

Renekton, Sylas, and Caitlyn turned back from the jungle, arriving at the F6 brush they had just cleared, looking at the duo clearing minions under the tower, as well as the top and jungle duo who were recalling.

"Should I engage?" Flandre began charging his rage with his ultimate in advance.

"Wait for one recall first," Ye Bo said aloud: "I can reach Jinx!"

Ornn finished his countdown and recalled first.

At this moment, Sylas suddenly cast his E through the wall, aiming at the rear of the defensive tower, at Vi, who was one second away from finishing her recall!

{Taking damage in the last second of a recall will not interrupt it, but if it is hard crowd control, it will be forcibly interrupted!

At the same time, Neeko in the back channeled her ultimate and stepped out.

"Someone's here!" Viper hadn't even seen anyone, just seeing the chains flying out from the wall behind him, he was suddenly shocked: "And on the right!"

"Watch me, watch me!"

Sylas landed after his dash, instantly transforming into the form of Vi—【Hijack - Cease and Desist】 aimed at Jinx in front!

Jinx immediately flashed backward to create distance, avoiding being controlled to death on the spot, while simultaneously laying down E 【Flame Chompers!】 at her feet.

Nautilus received the command and was preparing to hook and aim at Neeko to interrupt her, while Vi landed and prepared to lock onto the Sylas in her face, and both the top and mid Teleports also hurriedly lit up one after another.

After all, {Vi's ultimate} requires "flight time," it is not an instant lock-on.

As long as Nautilus can hold Neeko so she cannot follow up, Vi can then follow up with control on Sylas to protect Jinx.

If Jinx survives and hides in the back, she has a chance to counter-attack under the tower!

But the next moment, a golden flash accompanied the movement.

Sylas, who was chasing forward, instead of advancing, retreated, "flashing" backward onto the faces of the two people behind!

And Nautilus and Vi, who were preparing to cast their spells, suddenly fell into a continuous {Stun}.

The two were actually swept up by 【Cease and Desist】, like prisoners held in the crook of Sylas's arm, looking more like a "Wall of the Emperor" composed of one person, being violently pushed forward—pointing straight at Jinx's escape route!

"Holy cow." Seeing this scene, Viper subconsciously blurted out in Chinese.

"Holy cow!?" Peanut also inexplicably blurted it out along with him.

"Damn it, I can't move!!" Beryl was shouting helplessly in a panic.

{During the casting of Vi's ultimate, any other target that collides with her will be dealt damage and stunned for 0. 5 seconds.

This 【Hijack - Reverse Cease and Desist】 instantly controlled all three of them!

It even pushed their formation into perfect alignment!

Neeko was not hindered in the slightest; seeing the two people pushed toward her, she boldly flashed forward and landed her ultimate, knocking Jinx up while also including the two people "bumped" from behind within the range of 【Pop Blossom】!

Nautilus and Vi, having just escaped the stun of Cease and Desist, immediately fell into the knock-up and stun of Pop Blossom again!

Sylas remained in an {Unstoppable} state the entire time, taking on the appearance of Vi to seize Jinx, who had just run onto the high ground, and punching her into the sky!

Landing and returning to his original form, he lashed out with his chains without mercy.

Combined with a spear thrown by Nidalee, who easily aimed at the landing spot, Jinx was instantly killed!

"Xuanjun, kill Nautilus!" Deft shouted from the back.

Renekton, who had activated his ultimate early, had already rushed into the crowd, rampaging against the completely immobile Vi and Nautilus, and with a red-rage W, he killed Nautilus instantly!

Caitlyn didn't fire a single shot at first; she clattered out three 【Yordle Snap Traps】 from two directions, and only then did she raise her sniper rifle to fire.

Vi had just woken up from the imprisonment of Pop Blossom, only to have her feet locked by a trap immediately!

Vi's Q and R are both "displacement skills," so they cannot be cast while grounded, but Nautilus's ultimate can be cast while grounded.

"Pizza!! Viper is down!!"

"Doran and Chovy landed, is there any possibility of saving the situation under the tower, but both of them were double-trapped the moment they landed!"

{The landing position of a Teleport is fixed at the "very back" of the defensive tower.

Caitlyn, besides the first trap she placed for Vi, had placed the other two exactly at the Teleport landing spots under the tower.

The V5 members easily and safely exited the tower, then directly gathered the next minion wave arriving in the middle lane to push the inner tower, and then pressured the high ground.

Ornn and K'Sante, facing five people, naturally could not defend the defensive tower.

"Can Sylas actually engage like this?" The Roaring Emperor seemed to have a tearful tone: "V5's powerful, thunderous attack directly scored a zero-for-three trade under the tower!"

"GEN actually had their middle high ground pushed down in less than 17 minutes, and this was without even using the Rift Herald!"

【Caw! Caw! Sit! Plane!】

【Holy crap! Mammoth!】

【Why not ban Sylas? Why not ban Sylas!? I'm asking you why you didn't ban Sylas!!】

【I just love this infinite aggression! Smash your turtle shell!】

【Viper: "No! Come on guys, there's no need to be this ruthless!"】

The middle high ground being unexpectedly broken clearly also shattered the defensive balance.

First was the total loss of jungle resources!

Without the middle high ground, the already difficult-to-control jungle completely devolved into a dark forbidden zone, and the gold gap inflated wildly like a snowball.

And the V5 members, after taking the second Rift Herald, were in no rush to push the middle, continuing to slowly pluck away the outer towers, then using the Herald to crash into the top high ground.

At 20 minutes, the gold gap had already been stretched to 9k!

Among them, Sylas's development was sky-high, leading by a full major item in his matchup, and even having twenty more CS.

Although there was no particularly powerful 【Hijack】 ultimate in this match.

But as long as it is supported by a sufficiently large gold advantage, any skill can have infinite power.

Sylas stole Nautilus's ultimate 【Depth Charge】 and recklessly rushed into the crowd, locking onto Jinx from 825 yards away; it was impossible to dodge, and those in the way couldn't escape in time.

No matter how much Viper could position and operate, at this moment, he could only show a bitter smile.

How are you supposed to play when one ultimate lock-on blows up half your health?

Finally, at 22 minutes, the Fire Dragon Soul was claimed.

The V5 members rushed toward the exposed and crumbling high ground of GEN, leveling the crystal with an unstoppable force!

(End of chapter)