Chapter 328

The good news is that the solo kill in the mid-lane didn't disrupt WBG's plan.

After all, Ryze getting one more kill in the early game couldn't change the situation too much. A little over 5 minutes in, WBG still relied on their bottom lane advantage to go to the dragon on time.

Subsequently, both sides launched a second round of tactical lane swaps.

The game theory space for this lane swap has already narrowed—after all, there is a Rift Herald at 8 minutes. If V5 continues to swap the duo to the bottom lane to force-dive Jayce, it's a bit not worth the loss.

However, in fact, as the battle situation progressed to this point, V5's tactics and plans had landed almost perfectly.

Jayce only managed to reach level 5 at 6 minutes, which was already exploded beyond exploded!

Without major variables, this Jayce will have a very long time of being completely invisible, and it will even be very difficult to even lane against Sion, who is clearly developing much better than him!

And the many foreshadowings buried by V5 in the BP stage also appeared at this moment.

For example, the consideration of choosing Ryze.

Ryze has long been no longer strong after the Ryze nerf, and from the perspective of the hero alone, it is completely inferior to Orianna's priority.

Its only advantage is that after Galio and Taliyah were banned, and Twisted Fate, who has weaker early-game ability, was also abandoned, it became the only remaining 'long-range support' hero outside!

Besides that, there is Sion!

Affected by the lane swap, both sides have actually entered the lane transition period in advance, and the frequency of clashes has increased significantly.

And relying on the support advantage of Sion and Ryze, Ryze successfully came with an ultimate to dive the bottom lane near eight minutes to force-kill Jayce, and then Teleported back to mid.

Cooperating with Sion's driving arrival, they forcibly used the support advantage to successfully take the first Rift Herald that shouldn't have belonged to this mid-to-late game lineup!

Danny in the back gritted his teeth, anxiously twisting his curly hair.

"Xiba Zhao Qianxi, you Xiba!"

He still subconsciously thought that this game was a flashy routine created by his beloved disciple.

A routine specifically targeting his WBG and TheShy!

After all, everyone knows that TheShy is of great significance to WBG. Once he collapses, the whole team is like a broken leg, unable to exert force, and can only rely on Gala to support the single tree.

However, in all fairness, Beryl was truly innocent in this wave.

Because this lane swap really wasn't what he thought of—at least not the core part.

Everything has to start from the time WBG won that game.

Every player and every team must have unique traits and strengths and weaknesses.

Just like players with strong laning are often more prone to flaws, those with a steady style often fall into invisibility for no reason; players who are keen on operations generally have poor discipline, while those with strict discipline have difficulty in breakthrough tactical performance; those with outstanding development ability may be overly obsessed with development...

How to cleverly play to everyone's strengths and avoid their weaknesses is the key to widening the strength gap between teams!

And V5's top and bottom lanes are definitely not the type with strong laning.

So Ye Bo and Beryl were thinking at the time: if they encounter this kind of strong laning team again, how should they respond better?

After all, they can't rely on 'hard strength' to fight every time. They will eventually encounter opponents stronger than WBG, or even opponents whose overall hard strength might suppress them.

The two finally decided on multiple tactical plans and verified them one by one.

Several of them have already emerged in this BO5!

For example, {Game 1}: Directly abandon the priority of the weak lane compared to the opponent, transfer the focus of the battlefield by strengthening the laning strength of the other two lanes, and then use high-mobility roaming heroes to implement single-point breakthroughs on the dominant side lane.

—This tactic has the disadvantage of extremely testing the laning ability of the other two lanes.

After all, choosing a high-mobility roaming hero is one thing, but whether you can truly control the laning initiative to roam is another.

Xiaohu's Taliyah in the last game is the best example!

{Game 2}: That is the simplest one, using 'extreme counter' heroes to make up for laning.

Real hero restraint is like the rank game collision between Ye Bo and TheShy that night. Ye Bo could never use Mordekaiser to fight Vayne.

As for the Mordekaiser in the last game, it might just be because its restraint effect is not extreme.

As for this third game: it is the somewhat 'retro' {Lane Swap}!

Lane swap can instantly make the laning of both top and bottom side lanes lose its meaning—after all, 1 versus 2, no matter how strong your laning ability is, it's useless!

But the flaws are also obvious.

One is that you will inevitably be exchanged for resources by the opponent, and if the opponent's bottom lane is a late-game big core carry, and the top lane is a pressure-resistant hero who doesn't care about money.

Lane swap is very likely to become counterproductive!

This is also why this game's BP had to ban Zeri, release Xayah, who needs to fight to play a role, and deliberately banned high-fault-tolerance heroes like Ornn and Gnar in the second round of BP!

Even WBG choosing Jayce was within V5's prediction!

Second, it will pay more attention to the laning of the mid-lane.

The reason is that lane swap will cause the focus of the battle to tilt toward the side lane dive, and the jungler will have no time to take care of the mid-lane!

Third, it will greatly increase the 'game theory', and if the game theory fails, it is very likely to pit yourself, and the risk cannot be underestimated.

However, the first two flaws can also be transformed into usable advantages.

For example, the opponent's top lane player with strong laning has already actively chosen to select 'pressure-resistant' heroes like Sion, while the bottom lane player with strong laning has also actively chosen to select development big cores—doesn't that actually meet the purpose of lane swap?

As for the second point, it also simultaneously created great room for the mid-lane to play!

Of course.

The development of this game so far has one most important point.

Until this moment, everyone, including the opponent WBG's coach Danny, seemed to only think that this playstyle was a 'flashy routine' specifically for V5 to 'target TheShy', and the subsequent progress was just going with the flow...

Plus, Ye Bo had indeed used a 'similar' level-one design to mess with TheShy before.

For the time being, no one noticed that this was actually a systematic tactic that V5 was testing.

Time comes to 16 minutes.

Both sides are still constantly exchanging resources.

Ryze and Fiddlesticks often appear from the sky, Lissandra and Viego also find several opportunities to invade the jungle and capture Kindred, and the scene seems to have back and forth.

The only thing that makes WBG uncomfortable is the 'Dragon Stealing' by Ryze at 11 minutes, which stole the second dragon on time, greatly delaying the rhythm of the dragon fight.

Don't forget.

WBG is a pure early-game fighting lineup with no late-game heroes!

Conversely, V5, Ryze + Kindred + Tristana, are all top-tier late-game combat forces!

It looks like the economic gap between the two sides has not been significantly widened.

But in reality, for WBG, the rhythm is becoming more and more urgent every minute and every second, just like a sword hanging over their heads that could fall at any time!

"They might come to fight this wave, this Ryze is about to have two items, hey, Fiddlesticks seems to be here!"

"Be careful, it's a bait."

"Forget it! Open him, open him!"

The WBG members were preparing to enter the bottom river entrance from the triangle bush to stand.

But Xayah's {Farsight Alteration} just happened to reveal Fiddlesticks, who had just hidden in the river bush with his back arched.

Beryl stood still like a stake at the first time, trying to disguise as a 'person in the grass'.

Unexpectedly, the WBG members were already a bit impatient. Lissandra ignored everything else and directly cast the long-range E ability Ice Claw to dash!

Beryl noticed something was wrong and ran away, but this also exposed that he was indeed the real one—because when the enemy doesn't enter the face-to-face range of the person in the grass, the real person in the grass won't be awakened.

"It's real!"

"Can kill! Don't use too many abilities!"

V5's three were rushing to help from upstream of the river, but WBG's five formed a siege instantly like hunters smelling blood!

Jayce transformed into Piltover's Wind Girl, opening the acceleration gate to accelerate his teammates!

Lissandra's Ice Claw landed, decisively flashing W to stomp and fix Fiddlesticks, so that Fiddlesticks couldn't use Flash, while Rakan used his displacement to connect W, wanting to lift him up!

Beryl could only hurriedly crush his stopwatch to turn on the golden body, dragging time in a stagnant state.

"Brother Yuanshen has been caught!!!"

Xiaohai Youshen, who had been lying flat for a long time, seemed to come back to life: "WBG is going to win this wave!"

Guan Zeyuan frowned: "To be honest, I actually feel that V5's positioning is very strange! How could Ryze stand below with Fiddlesticks? It's obviously disconnected from the main force above!"

"It's fine to sell him, Ryze's development is very refreshing, it feels like he can come out of the mountain soon, this equipment doesn't even need to wait for level 16..."

In everyone's eyes, V5 directly selling Fiddlesticks would be fine—after all, this is not a dragon fight for the soul, and V5's lineup hasn't reached the power spike period yet.

But Ye Bo, looking at the positioning of the opponent's five, keenly captured a glimmer of opportunity.

"Brother Yuanshen, use that!"

Several signals flashed frequently on the map.

Ryze actively leaned over from the back, his fingertips runes surging, opening 【Realm Warp】 over the wall not far behind Fiddlesticks—that was probably the position where he could Flash and land after the golden body ended.

But this move made everyone shout anxiously.

"Master Ye is crazy! You can't turn back to save him, right!? Ryze can't die!"

"This is not the time for brotherly love!"

The exclamation of the commentary desk and the shouts of the audience drowned the arena, but the WBG members' eyes burst with ecstasy!

This scene is simply a god-given opportunity!

Although only crowd control interrupting Ryze's casting can stop the teleportation, this move might really save Fiddlesticks.

But how can you, Ryze, escape?

"Ryze! Ryze! Ryze!!!"

What surprised them even more was that Ryze didn't run towards the direction of the back defensive turret, but instead pulled towards the direction of the bottom lane minion wave.

It seemed that in order not to let Realm Warp be interrupted, he insisted on saving Fiddlesticks.