Chapter 27: Epiphany of Inspiration

"Holy crap!!! This Yone and Kennen are about to destroy the world!"

"What just happened!"

The two commentators at the desk had already been discussing EDG's potential follow-up decisions after Yone was instantly killed.

As it turned out, a two-stage reversal suddenly played out just like that!

"In a miraculous way, Yone actually tore a hole right through the encirclement, and even pulled off a counter-attack breakout in a way I've never seen before!"

"Two directions, four people, all bundled together, and Kennen simultaneously flashed over the wall to connect with a fully charged Slicing Maelstrom! EDG's fattest dual carries instantly unleashed terrifying burst damage; the four health bars on the opposite side almost vanished in an instant!"

"LNG was hit by a miracle team fight that was almost a two-versus-five, a zero-for-five trade!"

"With this, the five members of EDG aren't doing Baron; they're turning toward the high ground, likely attempting to end the game in one go!"

EDG was already ahead in gold, and with the super-powered AOE from the top and mid carries fully unleashed, it was clear that the few people on the other side couldn't possibly withstand it.

And since all five were alive, EDG didn't do Baron; the five of them turned and headed straight for the minion wave that had already reached the high ground gate.

Braum and Jarvan IV swapped aggro to protect the minions, while Yone and the Red-White gun Aphelios were like two human bulldozers; the speed at which they pushed the towers was simply incomprehensible.

At 23 minutes and 59 seconds, the red side's base was slashed into fragments filling the sky.

"One to zero! Congratulations to EDG!"

Remembering the Li Ning base collapsing into a pile of rubble, Jiejie shouted at the top of his lungs: "Without a doubt, this was an incredibly brilliant duel! One could even say the level of brilliance exceeded expectations; EDG is constantly showing us surprises!"

"I have to say, this rookie player's debut performance is truly too perfect, especially that last wave," Miller seemed to still be savoring it: "It really was just too exaggerated!"

"In the early game, there was the level-one design in coordination with the jungler; in the laning phase, there was the brilliant performance of a tower-dive solo kill; after gaining the advantage, he radiated pressure to the bottom lane to achieve a breakthrough; and in the mid-game, he showed his solid fundamentals while split-pushing on the side lanes!"

"And in this final team fight, it can absolutely be said that he personally, with his own strength, strangled the chance that LNG might have had to create a miracle team fight!"

The more Miller tallied it up, the more shocked he felt.

As the most senior commentator in the LPL currently, having stood at the commentary desk since Season 3, Miller could be said to have witnessed the birth and rise of [all] the geniuses of the LPL along the way.

Yet Ye Bo, as a true rookie who had only just emerged for a little over a month, and strictly speaking, had debuted for less than a week.

To be able to put up a performance of this level was simply inconceivable!

In any case, regarding the debut performance alone, no matter how hard Miller tried to recall, he couldn't find a benchmark.

"I have to say, among the rotations EDG made this year, the rotation of this rookie mid-laner seems to have an effect that is obviously more significant than the top-laner..."

EDG had also tried a top-lane rotation in the Spring Split this year, but unfortunately, the results were very average.

Flandre had indeed declined this year compared to his championship year, so EDG thought of letting Xiao Xiang, with his "operation-carry top-laner" style, try to make a change, but the results proved it was completely useless.

In the end, during this year's spring transfer period, EDG completely gave up on this top-lane youth training champion they once had high hopes for, and he has now transferred to the TT team to serve as a starter.

Therefore, when EDG announced that Ye Bo would be the starter today, many of the dissenting voices in the Weibo comment section were: [Haven't learned your lesson, have you? Looking for another mid-lane version of Xiao Xiang?]

Unfortunately, at this moment, it was clear that someone had already been hit by a boomerang!

The director provided a post-match data comparison.

In the core data of {Damage to Champions}, which is most important for a carry, Yone stood alone!

He led the entire chart, including his teammates, leaving everyone else far behind.

After all, the vast majority of EDG's key tempo team fights involved heavy participation from Yone, especially the last wave, where he solo-dealt over 4,000 damage!

Because that wave was, in the true sense, the moment he "forced" the four opponents to eat all of his damage together.

The post-match "Brilliant Replay."

When Yone's wind sword blew out, his figure turned back to first knock up the two people behind him with his body, and then, due to the change in distance and direction, he blew up the two people in front who had no defense, pulling out his ultimate to aggregate them in a straight line.

Even watching it again, the bullet comments were ignited once more.

[Too handsome! Fate Sealed! This is truly a flash of blades and shadows!]

[Coach, I want to learn this!]

[Are you kidding, bro? I can't even understand what I'm looking at, what am I supposed to learn?]

[This really is "slashing away slander," the episode where the hero's voice lines fit best; shouldn't Auntie Brother slap the faces of those who were still saying he couldn't do it before the match? So satisfying!]

[Can the director give us a player perspective? I want to see Doinb's temperature, it's urgent.]

The LNG players on site exited rapidly, especially the mid-laner, whose back wasn't even seen; it was a pity that the "red-hot" scene didn't break out.

One can only say that Doinb definitely knows how to escape.

"What do you say about the MVP of this game? I feel there shouldn't be much controversy, right?" Jiejie looked at Miller beside him.

Starting this year, in order to make the MVP selection for each game appear more "democratic and fair," the LPL changed from the original judging panel selection to a total of 6 votes distributed among the OB, judges, and the commentary desk, all of which are real-name votes.

But this game had almost no suspense.

All six votes were pocketed by Ye Bo!

"Congratulations to player Ye Bo! He got the MVP of the match in his debut; it is absolutely well-deserved, and he really brought us a big surprise!"

"Then let's take a short break and look forward to the second round of the contest between the two sides!"

The live broadcast camera captured the departing EDG members.

Among them, Ye Bo and Jiejie were hugging each other and chatting happily.

And when everyone walked back to the team lounge, Ye Bo was immediately embraced by the coaching staff and others who walked up.

"Well played!" Maokai's smile was bright and radiant.

"To be honest, I've never seen such a fierce mid-lane Yone; just a moment ago, I thought I was watching Zeus."

Even the knowledgeable assistant coach, Mr. Clearlove, couldn't hide his shock in his tone: "Yone is actually this strong in this version; I really didn't expect those few waves."

"It's mainly because Ye Bo's Yone is fierce; I feel he's really no worse than Zeus!" Jiejie leaned on the shoulder of Ye Bo, who was about the same height as him, and said with a grin.

In the current version, the Yone player who leaves the deepest impression on the public is undoubtedly the rookie youngster Zeus from T1.

This player is incredibly fond of using top-lane Yone to lane against all kinds of bruisers in the version, and he actually achieved quite good results.

On the contrary, the mid-lane position, which should have belonged to Yone, does not have any famous representative players at the moment.

"It's alright, it's alright~"

"It's mainly because I feel Doinb's experience with Azir laning against Yone isn't enough; the flaws were quite obvious."

Ye Bo wasn't being humble.

He isn't that kind of person, oh~

It's just that the facts are as they are; as everyone knows, Doinb is currently better at using mages, with representative choices being Ryze, Viktor, and Orianna.

Or he plays mid-lane support, with representative choices being Galio, Karma, and Lissandra.

And Azir, strictly speaking, belongs to a special type of crossover mage; it has both the stutter-step continuous output method of an ADC hero, and often has to use his own body to drift in and initiate team fights.

Compared to traditional mages, who hide in the back and throw a wave of skills to finish the job, the difference is obviously quite significant.

Scout, sitting in the corner without saying a word, listened to the team members' praise for this rookie, but his heart was completely calm.

At least, it was still like that for now.

After all, he really doesn't know how to play Yone; ever since he chose it once in S11 last year and was crushed by WE's rookie mid-laner Shanks, he hasn't practiced it even once.

Even though Yone in this version is actually a "lone seedling" among the "physical mid-lane" choices, he didn't think about practicing it.

As for this rookie performing well in the first game and continuing to play in the second, he didn't think there was anything to it either.

It just so happens that his own condition has been poor recently, especially in the game against OMG last week, where he was continuously beaten by the rookie Creme, who has also only been playing for a year, with a negative record for three consecutive games; that was met with vicious criticism from netizens everywhere.

Hiding for a bit is also good; just treat it as a weekend break.

Anyway, what Aaron told him was that as long as the other side loses, he must go up to save the situation immediately!

"Then let's briefly emphasize the next game... Ye Bo, you start it off." Maokai greeted everyone and specifically let Ye Bo start.

This is very reasonable; after all, Ye Bo had an extremely high level of participation in what EDG prepared for this match today before the game.

The original intention was that Aaron wanted Ye Bo to exert more of his talent in terms of the overall view, so that if his career as a player wasn't enough in the future, he would also be a super talent as a coach.

It's just that no one expected the effect of the first game to be this good.

As for the details, there isn't much to talk about.

During the review and study, Ye Bo discovered that because of the limitations in the styles of the jungler and mid-laner, the tactical depth of the LNG team was insufficient, so it wasn't difficult to study them.

Although the opponent exceeded his expectations right from the start by pulling out Azir in the first game, which he hadn't thought of at all, perhaps wanting to use it as a "big carry" point?

But the results have already proven that this was a wrong decision.

Then, thinking about the next game, the opponent should return to the field they are most proficient in...

After the discussion, everyone warmed up their hands in front of the computers, waiting for the referee's notification to go on stage.

And only then did Ye Bo finally have time to be idle.

He summoned the system interface.

He began to check the content of the "prompt box" that he hadn't paid attention to during the game and had closed the moment it appeared.

But, just after seeing the first line.

Ye Bo's eyes instantly revealed surprise.

[Congratulations! "Limit Operation" has been triggered!]

[Yone: Mastery EXP +20,000]

[Congratulations! "Epiphany of Inspiration" has been triggered!]

[Yone: Mastery EXP +50,000 (already overflowed)]

[Mastery Progress: (100,000/100,000) MAX]

[Congratulations! Yone has reached Peak Level 7!]

"Oh, wow? It can actually be like this!"

Ye Bo didn't expect there to be such a way.

These two never-before-seen entries, added together, actually gave him a whopping 70,000 experience points!

You have to know, if he were to train in the trial grounds, it would take at least four or five hundred games to possibly get these experience points!

For Ye Bo, time is strength!

He had made a simple calculation: at his current progress, under ideal conditions, he could master one level-seven champion per month.

There are only a little over three months left until the S-Series Global Finals, the highest stage in the Canyon, which will begin in October.

In other words, if Ye Bo’s goal is to hone level-seven peak signature champions, and assuming EDG can make it to the S-Series.

Then he would only be able to master 5-6 signature champions.

Of course, for a normal person, this is actually quite a lot; many first-tier players haven't mastered that many signature champions simultaneously, and most rely on their past reputation.

But Ye Bo feels this might not be enough.

Because his current base pool—Akali, LeBlanc, and even Yone—cannot be considered T1 level in the current version, and their types are too similar, making them unable to handle many complex team composition requirements.

This wave saved him a lot of time!

An excited Ye Bo carefully examined the system's explanation of these two entries.

[Limit Operation]

[On the competitive stage of the Canyon, on the path of pursuing honor, those limit-breaking operations that defy imagination are like the stars left behind on the mountain peaks, and will be the best embellishment for this glorious journey.]

[Prerequisite: The champion must reach at least level-five proficiency to have a chance to trigger; the trigger probability is positively correlated with proficiency.]

[Possible Reward: 5k-5w Champion Experience Points.]

After reading, Ye Bo suddenly understood.

And he thinks it is quite reasonable!

Understanding and controlling a champion first requires a large number of matches to hone, laying a firm operational foundation to transform into "operational instinct," which is the only way to perform at critical moments.

Therefore, there is a minimum proficiency threshold for triggering.

Otherwise, if one hasn't even mastered the upper limit of a champion, how can one talk about so-called limit operations?

Still the same saying, the operations themselves are not difficult.

The difficulty is how to actually execute them during the lightning-fast clashes!

It can be said that every time a limit operation is performed, the understanding of that champion immediately rises to a new level.

Because next time, these response situations that didn't exist in the mind before will have a template, and reacting will naturally be much simpler.

And these are quantified as "Champion Experience Points."

As for the amount of the reward, it naturally depends on just how "limit" the operation itself is.

From this, one can discern the gold content level of that operational choice.

Ye Bo continued to look at the entry explanation below.

[Epiphany]

[The same four skills have far more than four possible combinations; perhaps with the superposition of imagination and understanding of mechanics, a champion will erupt with an unimaginable upper limit, and the infinite possibilities deep within every champion are the charm of Summoner's Rift.]

[Prerequisite: The champion must reach at least level-six proficiency to have a chance to trigger; probability depends on personal epiphany.]

[Possible Reward: 50,000 Champion Experience Points.]

Regarding Epiphany, it is actually even more reasonable.

The lowest trigger condition requires level-six proficiency.

But in fact, if one has practiced to level six, just like Ye Bo with Yone today, that is definitely having mastered 99% of the so-called "techniques."

Then, wanting to discover "hidden combos" beyond these techniques—like "LeBlanc RW double-dash"—that one hadn't mastered even after reaching level six.

Under normal circumstances, this even requires some luck!

And what Ye Bo discovered this time was the third way to use Q-Flash, "Variant Wind Flash," and an even more advanced variation!

Namely, "Variant Wind Flash" + "Human and Wind Arrive Together": "Reverse Back-Turn Human and Wind Arrive Together Flash."

This is what counts as triggering an "Epiphany," obtaining a terrifying experience point reward.

Looking at it this way, fifty thousand is obviously not much.

After all, if Ye Bo hadn't discovered it, this technique would have had to wait until he practiced hard through more matches, grinding until level seven before he could know it.

Since he discovered it ahead of time... obtaining experience points to shorten the corresponding progress bar is very reasonable, right?

However.

Just when Ye Bo thought that for this level-seven Yone, there shouldn't be anything else he didn't know.

The result was yet another surprise!

"Whoa? There really is more!"

Although he already felt that he might not be able to get Yone in his next match.

But as a signature champion player, a player who really likes this champion, being able to discover a hidden technique he didn't know is already a very happy thing for Ye Bo.

Finally, there is the description of the [Experience Pool].

This is also the first time Ye Bo has discovered this thing.

Of course, this is mainly because it is his first time obtaining experience points through a "non-match" method, so he is encountering it for the first time.

The Experience Pool is simple and direct.

It is that extra experience points obtained through non-match methods like [Epiphany] and [Limit Operation] will first be forcibly {prioritized} for the champion that triggered the reward.

But if that champion has already reached level seven MAX.

Then the overflowing experience will automatically be attributed to the [Experience Pool], which Ye Bo can freely distribute to "any level-five champion"!

The reason it can only be distributed to level-five champions is also because, in form, it only instills all the champion technique points that should be known at level six into Ye Bo's brain, but the operational foundation still depends on himself.

So if there is no operational and understanding foundation of at least level five, even if one knows these techniques, it is very difficult to execute them perfectly.

However, Ye Bo is already very satisfied.

He took a look at the accumulated amount in the Experience Pool.

He opened the training mode and studied the familiar champion avatars on the selection interface.

Clearly, the harvest from this match far exceeded expectations.

Furthermore, his first "Match First Win" mission has not been completed yet, which should be because the match has only been played once and there is no final result yet.

The referee has come to notify them to take the stage.

Ye Bo stood up with his teammates, and he has even started to look forward to the next match.

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