Chapter 299: Fear! The Sachi-Ma Combination!

"Congratulations to V5! A one-to-zero lead over TES!" Guan Zeyuan shouted loudly from the commentary desk.

"In the first game, both sides brought out their own interpretations of the new environment. V5 used a rare mid-lane Kai'Sa to unleash an infinite offense system, while TES brought out an even more unexpected top-lane Darius to counter K'Sante. It can be said that each showed their own unique skills!"

Jide nodded and continued: "Besides that, the early jungle game between the two junglers was also very exciting. The two of them tangled back and forth in the jungle, and in the end, Xun had the slight upper hand."

The highlight replay was played immediately after the match.

Guan Zeyuan watched the screen and added: "But I have to say, the key to the two tempo shifts seemed to be the 1v1 between the junglers, but the turning point was actually the mid lane!"

While watching the OB, one would only feel that it was because the jungler "gifted" two kills to the mid lane early on, which led to Kai'Sa gaining an equipment advantage and successfully completing a solo kill by timing the critical ultimate cooldown difference.

But looking at it in the replay.

If the Monkey could have successfully gifted the tower in the first wave and dragged Vi back to his own jungle without getting anything, then in the situation where the opponent sent three people to surround and kill him, the loss of minions might not have been that significant!

If there hadn't been the loss from the first wave, there wouldn't have been the second wave of jungle invasion and camping, and the game path would have been completely different.

But in the replay, seeing Kai'Sa's incredibly bizarre "High-Altitude W" clearly again, one had to pull the OB perspective's infinite field of view to the maximum range to barely see the trajectory. It seemed there really was no way to deal with it!

"Holy turtle, I feel like this Kai'Sa technique really has something to it!" Sun Yalong said thoughtfully, shouting in surprise.

"If the principle is to change the launch point from high altitude, doesn't that mean enemy crowd control like knock-ups and knock-backs also works? It's a god-tier skill for control cancellation + counter-kill operations!"

The listless Xiaohai Youshen said casually: "This operation shouldn't be that simple, right?"

"Who are you looking down on? What's difficult about this!"

The ageless Sun Yalong took advantage of the break to open the client directly, entered training mode, instantly selected Kai'Sa, and then let Xiaohai Youshen pick a Poppy at random.

Poppy spun her hammer, counted three, two, one, and pressed the skill together.

The airborne Kai'Sa W was actually able to fire a "no-vision" missile in the air just like in the game!

Not only that, but they also experimented with hard crowd control like Nautilus and Alistar, and they could all achieve the same effect. In a 2v2 skirmish, they could completely achieve an unexpected counter-attack.

"Look, look, look!" Sun Yalong was triumphant: "This is the creativity of a streamer! Directly developing new things!"

"Why don't you try the one Ye Bo just used?" Xika said sneakily.

"That's even easier!"

Sun Yalong confidently set up two dummies and turned on plant spawning, wanting to replicate the scene from the match.

However...

The live stream was soon filled with "Eh? Eh?? Eh!?" sounds constantly ringing out!

The missiles Kai'Sa connected were either shot crookedly, couldn't be fired because she had already entered the {knock-up} state, or the angle was very strange but not the "cloud-like" visual effect that couldn't be seen.

Everyone realized from his clumsy reproduction that the requirements for timing and connection speed were so harsh!

After trying for several minutes in a no-cooldown state, he barely succeeded once or twice!

Sun Yalong scratched his head in embarrassment, torturing his already sparse scalp, while his partner next to him was laughing his head off.

"I feel like it's because of the skin?" He casually found an excuse: "I get it! KDA is the right one! Brother is wrong!"

"It seems that the second championship skin this year must be Kai'Sa. This Kai'Sa is completely useless... How about just picking a set of KDA girl group skins!"

Xika seized the opportunity to stir the pot: "Whose second skin? Would Brother actually choose Kai'Sa again?"

Sun Yalong's reaction became extremely fast at this moment, responding at light speed: "That definitely wouldn't be Brother. Can't you see who the Kai'Sa with the most god-like status is now? If you ask me, Kai'Sa's championship skin should belong to him!"

Kid was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously replied: "That's not right, where would a second skin come from? Even if Uzi got one, it would only be the first one."

The chat was instantly filled with 【????】 and 【Boom!】.

Meanwhile, the BLG preparation room, where people were watching the fun from the sidelines, was filled with a joyful atmosphere, as if they had washed away the gloom of their recent defeat.

After all, the two teams' records meant they were likely key competitors for playoff and Worlds spots, and the stark contrast between TES's recent winning streak and BLG's losing streak made it hard not to "gloat."

However, Tabe seemed thoughtful: "I feel like this idea of TES using Darius is quite interesting."

Chen Zebin immediately shook his head upon hearing this: "I don't play that hero, he's clumsy as hell!"

"Even a dog wouldn't play a warrior clunkier than Ornn."

"No, that's not what I meant about Darius."

Tabe stopped at the point, not wanting to seriously explain in depth to the other party, who was clueless about drafting.

What he actually wanted to say was TES's approach to finding a "Crocodile substitute" in this match.

Although he didn't expect Coach Maokai, who was known for his "conservative" thinking, to come up with this, it was undoubtedly gratifying to absorb a new evolutionary direction in the current environment where the path forward was still unclear.

And if there's a Crocodile substitute in the top lane... could there be others in other lanes?

Tabe felt he had found a brand-new direction.

He just didn't know that—Coach Maokai really hadn't thought that much about it.

Coach Maokai only did it because there happened to be a Darius specialist on the team, and since the player said "playing against K'Sante is easy," he simply started from the idea of a counter-pick to break through the top lane to support the simple concept of the upper half of the map.

It wasn't that he had really thought of some mature system.

And at this moment, Coach Maokai was still having a headache backstage.

He looked at the silent Wei, and Tian, who was rubbing his hands with his head down behind him, and fell into deep thought.

Frankly speaking, the playstyles of these two junglers aren't that different.

It's just that one does more shot-calling, while the other has higher mechanics and a higher ceiling, but there's no qualitative difference in their core playstyles.

"Dahuang starts the next game, and then..." Coach Maokai still made his decision.

The halftime break passed.

The players from both sides returned to the stage, and many people were watching the player tunnel with bated breath.

"They changed the top laner... Huh? They aren't changing the jungler?!"

Sika patted his big belly and chuckled: "Oh my, is there still a possibility for my Heavenly God to be revived? I feel like Xiao Wei already showed his true colors last game!"

"He stood tall when playing against weak teams before, but to be honest, Tian could have won those games too. Now that he's actually met a strong one, hasn't he already revealed his true form~"

Fearing a boomerang, Sun Yalong feigned an explanation: "You can't say it like that. Being able to kick Xiao Tian away should mean he still has something, at least his performance in scrims must be very good!"

Sika was unconvinced: "That makes no sense. Even if he really played better than Tian in scrims, it still makes no sense. At least let people play and compare!"

"If scrims were really useful, Zzitai should go to V5 to play top, and Tang Yuan should go to SKT to play mid!"

"Am I right, Kid!"

On the other side, Kid looked at Rookie, who looked exhausted on the stream as if smoke was rising from his head, and felt very distressed: "Anyway, Rookie really tried his best. He was purely burning himself in the early game last match. It's all this jungler's fault!"

"If he pits Rookie again this game, I'll definitely hate him for the rest of my life!!"

【Hate!!】

【The words are rough but the logic isn't, Tian also won the teams TES won before, and Wei didn't win the teams Tian didn't win, so what's the point of changing players?】

【Classic 'tried his best', wasn't the mid laner treated like a punching bag last game? Still trying his best!】

【Isn't it the jungler's full responsibility? Always messing around in the upper half of the map, do you understand who you need to help at TES!】

【You really can't blame Rookie for last game, at most you can only say that Top Esports is just too strong, capable of assimilating all incoming players into spinning tops!】