Chapter 282: Electric Shadows and Thousand Illusions! LeBlanc's Triple-Step Layup

Seeing their opponents suddenly begin to press forward, and then seeing Akali disappear without appearing in the top lane, the V5 members naturally guessed what was happening.

"They might want to dive!"

"I can TP, I can TP!" Flandre immediately wanted to retreat and press TP.

"No, no, the top laner must save their TP!" Ye Bo shouted to stop him immediately: "I can TP, Flandre just stay and farm the tower!"

Because LeBlanc had forced Akali to recall in the previous laning phase, she had successfully saved a TP to walk to lane, and she still had that TP in her pocket now.

In V5's understanding of the new patch, the BP ecological niche of the top lane is vastly different from the first half of the year.

This is actually the initial framework of V5's BP in these two games, and the reason why they didn't think about going bot at all in the early game, letting EDG protect the bot lane to push waves and take plating.

And since V5 had finally managed to kill Jayce, if the Crocodile TPs down, Jayce would get two extra waves of minions for free after TPing back to lane, and the top lane advantage would be instantly reversed or even overtaken.

That would contradict the tactics V5 formulated before the match.

Come to think of it, Flandre's playstyle has actually always had a "small problem."

Many times he cares too little about his own development and puts team contribution too far above his own lane matchup—this has been the case since he was willing to forgo laning at level one to accompany the jungler in an invade during the S11 Finals.

This is also because Li Xuanjun knows his current strength is not what it used to be, and he wants to extract as much value as possible to provide utility for the team.

This playstyle is fine in a meta where top laners are mostly utility-oriented.

It can even be said to be a unique advantage that the vast majority of top laners who play "solo" and "carry" styles absolutely do not possess, and could even be said to be very difficult to "train."

However, if it is a meta where the top lane ecological niche is important, and he still maintains this playstyle.

Then it is very easy to put the cart before the horse, and in the end, it might even harm others and himself.

The good news is that the team Flandre is currently on has two backup brains, one primary and one secondary, so this kind of mistake is actually very rare now.

"The Crocodile doesn't seem to want to TP in this position?" Jiejie glanced at the opponent's position.

Originally, EDG only wanted to force a TP from the opponent to alleviate the losses in the top and mid lanes.

But at this moment, they saw the Crocodile not retreating, but already starting to move forward to take plating.

"If only one person TPs, I feel like we can dive!" Meiko thought for a moment and said.

"I can keep an eye on the Crocodile!" Ale had already respawned and used TP, flying out full of confidence.

"Dive, dive, dive, dive, dive!"

The EDG members made a prompt decision.

Given the Crocodile's current position, Jayce could chase and guard him the whole way after his TP landed.

That is to say, even if the Crocodile wanted to TP now, he would at least have to walk from under the enemy's tier-one tower to his own tower to avoid being interrupted.

And the bot lane had been pushed in the whole time, so even if the V5 bot lane was steady, it was impossible for them to be at full health.

Even if LeBlanc TPs down now, it would be 4 vs 3!

After all, EDG still has the foundation of a championship team's bloodline; their sense for combat opportunities is naturally not too bad, and they knew this was an excellent chance to strike!

"EDG is going to move directly, LeBlanc cancels her recall and uses TP!"

"Akali hits level six after farming the wave, but EDG lacks initiation tools here, they can only let Sejuani walk in and auto-attack!"

Caitlyn paired with an enchanter support is great for laning pressure, but fighting and tower diving are a different story.

If the support were a Leona, Nautilus, or Alistar, they could just walk into the tower and land some CC, and Caitlyn could follow up with a trap to instantly delete someone; once they had the numbers advantage, there would be no risk.

But lacking initiation skills, Nami's Q is EDG's most important hard CC and cannot be used for initiation, so they can only let Sejuani walk into the tower to start.

"EDG wants to prioritize focusing Kai'Sa, they should also try to ensure they don't get a kill traded back, otherwise if LeBlanc lands and trades a kill, it won't be worth it!"

"Uzi's two very detailed 'alley traps' seal the path, blocking Kai'Sa's retreat!"

Kai'Sa looked like she wanted to pull back into the alley on the side of the tower.

But Caitlyn's two traps, placed at tricky angles behind the tower, completely sealed the rear path, intending to force Kai'Sa to circle outside the tower and walk past Sejuani's face.

Furthermore, these two traps were not placed "close together," but separated by a small distance.

Because {after the first Caitlyn trap is stepped on, if it is removed by Cleanse or Quicksilver, the target will be in a state of "immunity to repeat crowd control" for 0. 5 seconds.

Uzi understands Caitlyn so well; he knew Kai'Sa had a Cleanse, so he deliberately widened the distance between the two traps, determined to block this path!

But if we talk about the understanding of Caitlyn alone.

Deft is only above his opponents!

He just walked straight up against the traps, and just as he was about to step on one, he activated his E skill, {Supercharge}, to gain speed.

And the moment the trap tightened, he used {Cleanse} to instantly remove it; his restrained figure continued to move forward at high speed without any visible pause, and the speed boost from Supercharge was still active!

{Restraining CC does not actually "interrupt" Kai'Sa's E skill!

With the speed boost from the E skill, Kai'Sa ignored the second trap, stepped right over it, and flew to the back of the tower.

Successfully dragging the battle line to the back of the tower!

This position was a bit awkward for EDG—because once everyone pressed in, they would inevitably find it hard to escape after LeBlanc landed, and there would be a high probability of having a kill traded back!

"LeBlanc is coming down!!" An anxious FoFo felt the urge to retreat, subconsciously calling LeBlanc by her Taiwanese server name: "Should we forget it?"

"Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it! I can keep LeBlanc!" Uzi, fully in the zone, roared with a flushed face.

FoFo didn't dare hesitate; Akali had already started her ultimate and jumped in.

And Caitlyn, aiming at the fixed landing spot of the TP behind the tower, placed a third reserve trap, while simultaneously switching targets to attack the Nautilus who was still trying to hold them.

The decision-making of the two V5 players below also changed.

"Hit Akali, Hekui!" Beryl shouted urgently.

In fact, if Kai'Sa, who had already pulled back, had used both her summoner spells to flash backward, and then let Nautilus help hold them off, there might have been a glimmer of hope.

But then Nautilus would definitely die, and Kai'Sa would have used all her skills just to escape, ultimately resulting in a massive loss.

Because LeBlanc would have nothing to do when she landed!

It was precisely because of this that Kai'Sa chose to give up on escaping and turned around to start outputting damage onto the Akali in her face.

Nautilus threw Ignite onto Akali and used all his skills to block the duo—in fact, if he had thrown his skills at Sejuani, who was tanking the tower, the two of them would have likely been able to trade for her.

But as the saying goes.

In that case, LeBlanc would have nothing to do when she landed!

To put it bluntly, with the opponent forcing a hard dive at the cost of four people, the bot lane duo would definitely lose out; even if they traded for a kill, they would definitely lose the tower and minion waves.

Then at the very least, they couldn't let the mid lane be dragged down with them!

As long as LeBlanc could pick up even one kill upon landing, at least this trip wouldn't be in vain, and it would guarantee that the mid lane wouldn't be affected.

This is clearly V5's unique tactical philosophy.

However, the commentary desk didn't understand at first: "The V5 duo didn't focus the Sejuani who was tanking the tower? Nautilus flashed to hold Akali, but Akali can't possibly be focused down by them!"

"And LeBlanc was trapped by Caitlyn the moment her TP landed! Nami followed up with a bubble!"

Sejuani specifically held her Q skill, and after tanking to a dangerous health level, she walked out of the tower toward the top, trying to avoid being traded.

Akali turned to attract the aggro of the overheated defensive tower and didn't dare stay any longer.

Kai'Sa was in the middle of the minion wave behind the tower and didn't have an angle to use her E, so Akali could only dash with her second R to deal most of her damage, then quickly flashed to escape from under the tower and rendezvous with Sejuani above.

Akali took two hits from the overheated tower but was still above half health; she and Sejuani were enough to cover each other's escape.

Unfortunately, due to the laning disadvantage earlier, Akali's gear from her first recall was too poor; she couldn't afford a standard {Lost Chapter} at level six, and only had a Doran's Shield + Amplifying Tome.

This also led to the fact that even with this R that should have been an execution, Kai'Sa still had a sliver of health left!

But Uzi opened fire.

Caitlyn first raised her gun to auto-attack Nautilus, instantly switched to a headshot on LeBlanc (who was locked by a trap) to {reset her auto-attack}, then instantly used an "E-Flash forward" to hit Kai'Sa with the net, again resetting her passive headshot for a long-range, thousand-unit auto-attack.

Successfully killing Kai'Sa first!

And landing after the recoil, she happened to exit the tower range without being held by Nautilus, while the three auto-attacks fired in an instant successfully stacked the headshot passive.

The fourth headshot auto-attack, stacked by the "split-shot triple headshot," was aimed once again at the Nautilus in her face!

"Uzi!!!" Wawa was suspected of impersonating a friend in prison.

"Last year at the S-tournament, I said that we in the LPL also have a Caitlyn! This proficiency is too high!"

"In this case, Sejuani and Akali should be able to retreat from the back together. LeBlanc's health is also very unhealthy, but she should be able to save Nautilus... wait, Master Ye is still going in!?"

Caitlyn's sharp shooting managed to instantly reverse the situation that had given EDG a heart attack.

Kai'Sa was dead, Nautilus was in poor condition, and LeBlanc had lost a third of her health upon landing; it looked like there were no more opportunities for plays.

It was just that the V5 bot lane duo had specifically left the "pork" for Ye Bo.

He couldn't let it go.

Of course, although the EDG members' "brains aren't very good" right now, their muscle memory is still online.

Jiejie saw LeBlanc kicking over, instantly flashed over the wall to jump away, and still had his Q skill to bump into the river!

And the nervous FoFo's reaction was even faster, especially since LeBlanc's long-range W is not hard to react to; Akali used her E skill, which she hadn't had a chance to use before, to dash and dodge, while simultaneously tagging her with her Shuriken!

"Both of them dodged it!"

"Master Ye still has two stacks of Dark Seal on him; if he dies, it's a huge loss, he needs to be careful!"

Ye Bo instantly followed with a flash over the wall, just in time to bump into the tail of the Sejuani jumping into the river, and also saw the shuriken Akali threw.

His eyes narrowed slightly.

LeBlanc turned her head, lightly flicked her staff at the figure of Akali flying toward her, and a crisp sizzling sound arrived a beat late—then she instantly and decisively used R {Distortion} for an ultra-long displacement, crossing over to kill under the wall!

The edge of her large foot, which was slightly off by half an inch, happened to stomp the low-health Sejuani to death!

But in the air behind her, the toe surrounded by the golden flames of the Candle Dragon had already flown over.

"Watch out for her going back!" Jiejie shouted at FoFo immediately after dying.

"I can help tank the tower! If she comes back, we can kill her!" Meiko also seemed to notice something.

At this moment, LeBlanc's key damage skills, both Ws, had already been used on Sejuani; no matter how you looked at it, she was already a LeBlanc with "no damage."

The only play she could make was perhaps to use W to return to the starting point under the tower.

Clearly, both EDG members were thinking of that memorable scene from last year's World Championship that happened right beside them.

But this scene was completely different from the situation where Faker was killed back then.

The LeBlanc had not yet triggered her passive, her vision was completely exposed, and EDG's bot lane duo was under the tower to guard the corpse; at the very least, they could help tank the tower shots.

There was no way the LeBlanc would be able to pull the Akali back under the tower to complete a counter-kill!

FoFo looked at the LeBlanc waiting for him under the wall and had already guessed what was in Ye Bo's mind—wait for Akali's E2 to touch the ground, then have LeBlanc dash back under the tower alone; this way, she wouldn't drag Akali back under the tower, and she could also split the battlefield to save herself.

Unfortunately.

There have never been many people who could truly guess Ye Bo's train of thought.

Even his former teammates.

The LeBlanc shook her staff again at the Akali flying over three walls, and before any sound could return, her figure had already vanished from the spot.

It wasn't until half a second later that a faint crackling sound seemed to return in the air.

"She's back!"

"Help Akali tank the tower!"

The LeBlanc blinked back under the tower, pulling Akali's figure to turn in mid-air as well.

The bot lane duo, who had originally wanted to try and finish off the Nautilus, immediately stopped and turned to attack the LeBlanc to rescue Akali.

Even if the final price paid resulted in only a 1-for-1 trade, the three of them pressuring the opponent's two meant they surely wouldn't dare to guard the tower anymore; if Caitlyn cleared the wave, she could at least counter-push and take two plating stacks, so the economic exchange wouldn't be a loss at all!

But after taking two shots in place, the LeBlanc shook her staff a third time, aiming at the Akali following in the air.

And then.

She vanished once again!

"My god, she's flying!!!"

The commentary desk, accompanied by the director's camera locking onto the somewhat twitchy perspective, kept letting out bursts of exclamations.

"Where is the LeBlanc!"

Akali's figure in the air changed direction for the third time.

This time, she flew toward the middle of the brush.

And only then did everyone notice the Akali in the air—what about her health bar!?

"How is Akali already at such low health!?"

"Where did that damage come from!!!"

The LeBlanc waiting in place seemed to be mocking her at the landing point, throwing out a chain followed by Sigil of Malice toward the air, then shaking her staff for the fourth time.

At the same time, the fourth basic attack accompanied by an electric arc and the fourth "crackling" sound arrived.

Electric light flashed on Akali's body for the fourth time as well.

And though she had been at half health just 3 seconds ago, it was now already bottomed out!

On the contrary, the LeBlanc's health bar had inexplicably increased by a chunk.

The two people under the tower nearby, having attracted aggro because they wanted to help the Akali who would have taken tower damage from E2, now had no choice but to pull away from the tower and could not come to the rescue!

"Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow!" Wa Wa held his head and made "wow" sounds: "What kind of play is this!!!"

Miller leaned forward over the desk, squinting slightly as he described the battle: "Akali has fallen! And EDG still wants to use their summoner spells to force a trade for the Nautilus... but because the overheated defensive tower is outputting crazily, they can't chase anymore and didn't succeed!"

"Wait, isn't the result a 1-for-2 trade!? EDG took a bad trade! Mainly because this wave was a three-versus-four!"

"In the previous shot, Akali clearly still had half health, why did she suddenly have no health left?"

The director quickly provided a replay, skipping over the first half of the bot lane skirmish, which was actually equally brilliant.

It went straight to the final, bizarre scene of the LeBlanc.

Everyone saw the LeBlanc's entire sequence of movements from an overhead perspective once again.

Even watching it again was dizzying; not even the screen could fully capture it, with four energized missiles dancing and chasing in the air, and Akali's health bar dropping with a delay like a hallucination.

It was as if one were truly trapped within a mirror image!

"Accumulated Electric Shadow, Thousand Illusion Trace"!

Of course, the operation itself isn't actually difficult.

It's nothing more than W-D-AR-AW-AR-EQ-A.

If one must say where the difficulty lies, it is the "Delayed Energize" mechanic that fits LeBlanc perfectly—that is, the basic attack is launched first, then the displacement occurs, and then the stacks are maxed out in mid-air without wasting any stacks.

If you didn't use this mechanic and instead attacked first then displaced, the Energize stacks would definitely have wasted portions, or even result in 1-2 fewer Energize procs.

This is the core trick of "AD LeBlanc."

And Ye Bo undoubtedly pushed this mechanic to the extreme in this play!

Afterward, by repeatedly jumping between three walls and cleverly utilizing the ultra-long-distance blink displacement of the three walls to "instantly stack" Energize, every time she swapped bodies, she could instantly max out the Energize stacks.

Many players who are not sensitive to numbers tend to underestimate the damage of this 700-gold 【Kircheis Shard】.