Chapter 364: "Ye's operation is simple?" Using himself as bait!

"Malzahar's ultimate was interrupted! Yone lands, follows up with an R, a double-slash, then sheathes his blade and exits the tower range!"

"Xu! Ge! Got! Solo! Killed!"

Guan Zeyuan shouted with inexplicable excitement from the commentary desk.

"What just happened in the mid lane!"

After the solo kill in the mid lane, the junglers from both sides did not appear, and their positions were naturally revealed to each other.

The bot lanes, which were originally about to engage, were directly dissuaded by the long-range situation; there was no reason to keep fighting knowing there were people behind them, which indirectly prevented a battle.

Everyone's perspective shifted to the mid lane.

Xu Xiu was craning his neck forward in shock, his confused little eyes filled with great bewilderment, as if even he himself did not understand what had happened.

The director quickly cut to the replay.

It could be seen that the low-health Malzahar was under the tower, waiting until his passive shield refreshed before daring to step out from behind the tower to farm the tower minions.

Just from this action, it was clear that Xu Xiu was playing extremely cautiously; he definitely didn't die because he "lost his mind."

Malzahar had both his passive and his ultimate; no matter who looked at it, there was no reason not to take such a large wave of minions.

After all, as long as Yone dared to enter the tower range to break the shield, Malzahar would instantly suppress him under the tower—Yone was also in poor health, and the 2.5-second suppression effect would mean taking at least 2-3 tower shots; it could be said he was certain to die!

Yet, in the death replay, it was clearly visible that Yone had entered the tower with an EQ start without any concealment!

To Xu Xiu at the time, this was no different from courting death!

Even if Yone used Q-Flash to close the distance, his own {Void Shift shield} could directly block the skill, and at the same time, the opponent would still draw tower aggro, allowing him to steadily suppress the opponent.

As it turned out, before he knew it, amidst a flash of blades and shadows, his ultimate was inexplicably interrupted!

【What happened??】

【Dual-wielding style, kid!】

【I just looked over and saw Chang Wei beating Lai Fu】

【Brother Xu, please give Ye some face! Don't use your head to hit his feet anymore!】

【（）（）（）（）！】

【Xu Chu is truly a good friend of the LPL; he always stands out at critical moments. As expected of him!】

"This is... using Flash to interrupt his own Q, then W in place?" BDS's top laner Adam scratched his head: "The combo should be Q-Flash-W?"

Playing champions like Garen and Darius, he didn't know these flashy heroes at all and only guessed roughly.

G2's top laner BB, sitting next to him, nodded: "Should be. The visual effect looks so cool, but the execution isn't particularly difficult."

"The more important part is that if Yone wants to achieve 'Human-Wind Separation' with Q-Flash, he must wait until the wind is completely released before flashing. This tests timing."

"Actually, many of Ye's operations aren't difficult. Any of us could replicate them. It's mainly the thought process; being able to think of doing it like that on the spot is indeed impressive."

As the LEC's first seed, he put on the air of a big brother toward his own fourth seed and even started teaching him.

The backstage was noisy, and since players from different countries didn't speak the same language, even if they wanted to socialize, they were hindered by language barriers, so they mostly gathered within their own regions.

But on the other side.

Zeus, sitting in the LCK section, frowned deeply.

He patted Oner on the shoulder, signaling him to come along, and walked over to the backstage computers used by players for peripheral debugging and warm-ups.

"What are those two from T1 doing? Not watching anymore?"

"Let's go take a look."

Several players from various regions who had been paying attention immediately followed out of curiosity.

And seeing the heroes the two had chosen, realizing they wanted to replicate that move, they were all a bit confused for a moment.

After all, to everyone, that move didn't seem very difficult.

But, soon.

They all widened their eyes.

Just because Zeus in front of the screen—seemed unable to "replicate" that move!

More accurately, Zeus did replicate Yone's movement, and the positioning looked exactly the same as what had just happened on stage.

The difference was that Oner, controlling Malzahar, didn't have his shield broken, nor was he knocked up by the whirlwind, thus interrupting the ultimate!

Following Zeus's operation, Yone was just like the scene Xu Xiu had imagined in his mind earlier: directly suppressed under the tower, unable to move, and shot to death by the tower's counterattack!

"What the hell?" A bewildered Oner couldn't understand it either.

And the reason was soon revealed in the text of Malzahar's passive.

{The shield from {Void Shift} does not disappear immediately after taking one instance of hero damage, but persists for 0.25 seconds}

It was that 0.25-second delayed Void shield that swallowed both the whirlwind arriving immediately after and the W that broke the shield!

Zeus actually didn't know this small detail about Malzahar's passive; he just vaguely felt Yone's movement was strange, and he had never thought of operating that way himself, which is why he wanted to try.

He didn't expect that with this attempt.

He would discover that this seemingly simple operation was actually so difficult!

The maximum flight distance of Yone's Q3 takes about 0.5 seconds—it seems there is still a 0.25-second gap?

But to achieve "Human-Wind Separation" instead of "Human-Wind Together" with Q-Flash, and to use the separation to allow Yone to "exit the Q state" early to cast W, one must press Flash only after the wind has completely left his hand.

At the same time, W also has a cast animation.

Trying to seize that critical 0.25-second gap here means the timing of the Q3 release, as well as the speed of connecting W after the Flash, must be precise to the slightest degree!

Being off by even a little won't work!

The more a player understands Yone, the more they can feel the difficulty.

What it requires is not simple hand speed, but coordination as precise as a surgeon's scalpel; even Zeus had to repeat it many times before successfully replicating it!

And the several top laners from the Round of 16 standing behind the chairs finally realized it after watching several times.

"What the f***?"

"Crazy... even Zeus finds it this hard to replicate?"

"So that means, Ye's Yone actually caught up to his own wind?!"

"I'm starting to believe that post on Twitter too—BB, your coach was right!"

BB, the G2 top laner who had just been spouting nonsense, heard the North American top laner's teasing, and his face turned a bit red.

Even Zeus, a Yone specialist, had to repeatedly test it in the training camp without cooldowns many times before he could barely replicate it.

And he had actually said the "operation is simple"!?

The other players who hadn't come over didn't understand what the noise was about behind them; they turned their heads in confusion, then continued to look at the situation that was about to change drastically.

Two and a half minutes is very short in the real world, but it feels so long on Summoner's Rift.

The cooldown of Malzahar's ultimate is exactly two and a half minutes.

Originally, after reaching level six at five and a half minutes, both Malzahar and Viego could constantly threaten the mid lane before the Rift Herald fight, surely suppressing the opposing mid laner from daring to act rashly.

Unexpectedly, Malzahar's first ultimate was gone just like that!

By the time Malzahar's ultimate came back up, the Rift Herald fight was about to arrive, and he didn't dare to initiate an attack, which was equivalent to missing a key window of opportunity.

Approaching 8 minutes.

Keria looked at the minimap: "The supports from both sides are heading toward the Rift Herald..."

"Is V5 going to do the Rift Herald? Feels a bit risky."

Gumayusi said, clearly enjoying the chaos: "Renekton's combat power at this point is too strong; Yone's R on five people would be useless! These two DK locks can instantly kill one!"

On the surface, V5's mid-jungle duo already had a lead of 1k gold from their early advantage.

But at this moment, Yone, who had only just bought {Berserker's Greaves} + {Noonquiver}, even if his items were considered decent, would barely be stronger than an Azir with the same gold development when fighting—this is determined by the hero's attributes.