Chapter 313

"Ye Bo seems unable to find his previous fierce state, but now that he is standing on the edge of a cliff, he must adjust his state as soon as possible and seriously think about how to defeat the enemy."

Near the moment the Nexus exploded, Coach Bobi, sitting blankly in the backstage, listened to the dead silence of the team's voice chat, which even allowed the sound from the commentary desk to bleed through.

He let out a long sigh.

If only it were as simple as the commentators said!

After the first game ended, they realized that the "foundation" they had used to win all the way here had been completely suppressed by V5.

Their pride and joy—the mid-jungle power spike + stable laning in three lanes + mid-to-late game operation and team fighting strategy—simply "shattered at a touch" when they met the opponent!

In the second game, they thought it was a problem with the lineup choice from the previous match, so they chose a strong mid-game lineup again.

The result not only failed to achieve a breakthrough, but instead further confirmed the conclusion!

"The score between the two sides has reached two to zero!" Jike shouted loudly at the moment the Nexus exploded: "V5 has bombed through two games and was the first to reach match point in this semi-final!"

Wang Duoduo next to him was equally impassioned: "As long as they win one more small game, V5 will lock in a spot in the top three and enter the World Championship early, becoming the first team in the world to lock in their qualification!"

"In this game, Master Ye's mid-lane Viego showed many surprises and outrageous understandings, especially when he transformed into Akali... it instantly makes people recall the many legendary epic scenes of his Akali in the past!"

"One still has to sigh, worthy of being the champion Akali! Even Viego's possession can be played with such flair by him!"

His words were full of admiration, and his voice carried a sense of awe.

Gugu next to him was also clapping continuously: "Yes, yes! Especially that 'Flying Thunder God' combo in coordination with Viego; I dare not imagine what kind of imagination it takes to come up with such a combo. Only Master Ye's Akali could pull that off, right!"

It wasn't just the three people on the commentary desk who reacted intensely.

The many V5 fans off-stage and in front of the screens were equally excited.

Although Ye Bo's Akali had been away from the competitive stage for too long, and had almost become something of a "legendary existence," everyone still had a very deep impression of his many outrageous operations in the past.

Flying Thunder God, thousand-mile E, multi-directional variant E-Flash, hidden smoke...

Due to Akali's constant self-sacrificing dedication in this game, many operations were seen reproduced with ease before their very eyes.

It really was as if they were just "basic operations."

And no one expected that they would see more than one brand-new, outrageous combo in this game!

One could also see from the post-game scoreboard—Akali was either on the way to dying, or Akali was on the way to showing off!

【Laughing to death, the number of times the 'Thief Saint' Akali died in one game is more than all the times Master Ye's Akali died in his entire career!】

【The persona has collapsed! The persona has collapsed! Pass it on, Master Ye is domesticating Akali!】

【Don't be malicious, actually, a person's 'that thing' is free, having some special little quirks is understandable.】

【Ye: Other teams have learned, right? From now on, just pick Viego to play against Akali, okay? As long as you kill the possession, you are directly invincible. That infinite Q is simply a bug! Stop banning Akali!】

【It really is, as everyone knows, League of Legends has no bugs, everything is based on the settlement!】

【Still scheming, still strategizing, but when they let it out, they found they couldn't kill it even once, GG!!】

Although there really was no other way, after all, as an "Assassin" and a nearly pure melee hero, unless Akali goes AFK the whole time and never participates in the fight, she will inevitably go deep into danger, making her very easy to die.

This actually counts as a common ailment of "Assassin" heroes.

Invincible when ahead, useless when behind.

If it were various major magic-damage heroes, even if they collapsed to 0-10 in the early game, as long as they drag it out long enough, they will definitely be useful in the end.

This is why even in the former assassin meta, not everyone played assassins; it is almost a "high-risk" attribute naturally carried by the hero type.

Of course.

The logic is the logic.

But when Scout saw his i-series ultra-modern research performance after the game ended.

And when he returned to the player tunnel, he was accidentally hit by the "pointing diagram" from the spectator seats above, his face was already as flushed as if he were cosplaying a god!

Back to the backstage.

It was visibly noticeable that the mentality of all LNG members had been affected.

Seeing the team members in low spirits, the coach, although under immense pressure himself, tried his best to ease the atmosphere.

"Sigh, it's just that the opponent played too well in the last game, and we made a few small mistakes in our handling."

"But it doesn't matter, everyone keep up the good work in the next game."

But this comfort clearly didn't have a very good effect.

Because the blow from this game had pierced deep into everyone's hearts, and everyone had discovered the "real situation."

Clearly, for LNG to be able to reach this step, and even defeat strong teams like TES by a large margin, their strength is definitely not weak!

At the very least, they shouldn't have been beaten into such a miserable state.

The root cause lies in—

The operation system that LNG itself excels at is exactly countered by the fast-attack system that V5 excels at.

LNG also tried to play the fast-attack system, or even played the exact same lineup, but they couldn't beat the developer of this system at all!

What should they do!?

The preparation room backstage fell into a deathly silence.

Support Hang felt the atmosphere was a bit too heavy and wanted to lighten it up.

He caught a glimpse of the live stream screen that the coach had specifically muted, and seeing the image on it, he suddenly pointed at the screen subconsciously.

"Hey Brother Ruican, how did that Akali pull that off?"

"Why could it fly over like that? Doesn't Akali's E not deal damage if it doesn't hit? I was stunned watching it!"

Scout, hearing the other person mention Akali, thought they were talking about one of his own plays and subconsciously turned his head to look at the screen.

And then—

He saw the screen playing exactly that "Throne Flying Thunder God" moment of "Akali."

"Ah, damn it... I don't know!"

The last four words from Scout were almost roared out, clearly venting his anger on the other person.

Hang seemed a bit aggrieved.

He was really just curious!

Didn't you say yourself that you could play Akali!

Hang, having been snapped at again, pouted and stopped talking, though he was calculating in his heart whether he should look for a job at another team next year if Scout was still at LNG.

He heard there was a team with a good atmosphere that liked to look for supports, and the ADC often listened to the support talk about stories of "when I was six years old" halfway through a game for no reason.

However, it really wasn't Scout's fault.

Because he didn't understand that "strange place" either.

And the director responsible for post-game editing clearly hadn't discovered that point either, and hadn't slowed down the footage at that position at all.

The director chose to slow down the moment of turning back, the "super handsome freeze-frame" of Viego turning in the air and raising his sword to strike down.

Clearly, that was a small detail that required a certain level of Akali proficiency to know.

And on the other side, Lee Xianghe, who was watching, frowned when he saw that the live stream didn't slow down to this scene, clearly waiting to see it too.

"Coach Maokai, slow this down." He persistently called out to the coach.

The club's computer happened to have the recording of this match turned on, so he could immediately cut out the video of that moment and watch it again in slow motion.

Lee Xianghe was actually very persistent about "operations" as well, and had also pulled off many "first-time" operations on the competitive stage.

It's just that relatively speaking, he wouldn't specifically spend time practicing those tricky operations, leading to frequent failures, and was often guessed by some amateur commentators to be simple "low-level mistakes."

And what they were curious about was also very simple.

Because from the video, Akali's E didn't kick the opponent, and was even quite a distance away—anyone who knows Akali knows that Akali's E must "kick someone" to deal damage, and if interrupted by Flash or displacement midway, the E will be canceled directly.

The T1 group also curiously came behind the seats to watch.

In the ten-times slow motion, when Lee Xianghe used the keyboard's right arrow key to view it frame by frame, his eyes became increasingly active.

Standing behind him was Zeus, who had the sharpest eyes and was also the one who understood Akali best in the team besides the opponent, and the speed of his expression change was very similar.

"Did he use Flash... huh?"

"So it was that extreme."

Oner next to him took a sip of protein drink, puzzled: "What? Isn't this just an E-Flash? Even I don't play Akali and I understood it."

"No!" Zeus patiently explained to him: "It's not a simple E-Flash, it's very different."

"First of all, Akali's E2-Flash is already very easy to mess up. If you don't flash to the face, but only flash to 'in front of your eyes,' you will still miss the E!"