Chapter 385: No Order, No Hidden Skill! A Hair's Breadth Away, A World of Difference

"HLE has suddenly changed direction here. It looks like they're going to gank the mid laner!" Wawa on the commentary desk said with deep concern.

"Actually, Master Ye's handling here is already very smart. He knows his Azir has no combat power to support in the early game, so he only seeks to suppress Qiyana to the extreme, making it difficult for the opponent to move as well."

"But Master Ye doesn't seem to have realized that the opponent's true target is him!"

Azir can still create a bit of a threat in lane by relying on the positioning of his W sand soldiers.

Once they enter a melee skirmish in the jungle, the dilemma of being unable to frequently reposition sand soldiers will immediately be exposed, and his fighting ability is clearly worlds apart from Qiyana's.

And in Canyon's view, since his duo lane has swapped to the top lane anyway, the top-side jungle will sooner or later be his for the taking.

Being able to target the mid lane is a higher priority!

As a "jungle-carry" type jungler, Canyon, who has won an S-tournament championship, has a clearer head than certain pure cancers who prioritize themselves above all else; he knows what it means to prioritize the big picture.

The duo lane in the top lane disappeared from the map after pushing the wave—it looked like they wanted to help the jungler invade the top-side jungle—but in reality, they were heading straight for the mid lane!

Because Azir had been pushing the wave the whole time just to keep Qiyana from leaving, the minion wave's position was clearly a bit dangerous at this moment.

But if he retreated the moment he saw the top lane go missing, all his previous suppression would be completely wasted, and Qiyana could immediately move; he might even get his wave frozen against him and lose out massively!

And what truly made the commentary desk anxious was—Ye Bo's actions, which looked as if he hadn't even thought the opponent's target was him!

He didn't retreat at all!

"Azir should at least have his Flash forced out in this position; Twitch has already closed in while invisible!" the Roaring Emperor roared excitedly.

"As long as Azir's Flash is forced out, he basically won't dare to cross the river during the laning phase. This way, Qiyana will gain the initiative in the mid lane, and the loss of mid lane priority will make HLE's subsequent offensive rhythm even harder to defend against!"

"Qiyana has also entered the brush while invisible and stolen the water element in the brush. Look at this position... hmm?"

"What kind of game sense is this!?"

Qiyana first used the grass element to get close, utilizing the characteristic that {picking up an element while camouflaged by the grass element has no warning}, and secretly took the water element to sneak closer.

She was preparing to coordinate a pincer attack with the Twitch that had already closed in.

This move was a laning strategy Ye Bo had used for the first time, and it was also a common laning situation for Qiyana vs. Azir. Previously, Azir had no reaction to this move either; it could be said that it is very difficult to guard against such a sudden attack.

But just as the two were about to close the distance, and Qiyana, hidden in the grass element, reached the distance to directly 'borrow a minion to dash'...

Azir suddenly turned around and WE drifted away!

"That seems a bit strange?" The attentive Nuguri noticed the anomaly.

It wasn't 'strange' that Azir retreated upon sensing danger—after all, it's normal to be vigilant when the top lane goes missing—what's strange is that Azir actually had no reason to use both his W and E skills to pull back!

Because Azir's E skill has a full 20-second cooldown in the early game!

Even if he were truly vigilant, he would at most walk back two steps; it's impossible to hand over his only life-saving skill like that!

And if Azir had just walked back two steps, the water element Qiyana threw out while 'borrowing a minion to dash' would definitely have hit, and she could then have used her body to block him at point-blank range, making Azir unable to use E [Shifting Sands] to create distance, forcing him to use Flash.

The stealthed Twitch also appeared in the mid lane.

Unfortunately, neither of them managed to touch Azir even once; they could only help push the minion wave before returning to defend the jungle.

"HLE's attack on the mid lane didn't work, but fortunately, there were no losses. Evelynn is fighting Sejuani in the back of the jungle with Alistar, and even if K'Sante comes to support, he will be unable to move due to fear of the ADC who is about to return to defend."

"Wait, no!?"

"It looks like HLE is going to pull a 'returning horse spear'!"

This time, HLE had Alistar follow Evelynn into the jungle, while Twitch snuck toward the mid lane while invisible to ambush, but unfortunately, it didn't succeed.

And with Twitch's failed mid gank, no matter how you look at it, they should be returning to defend the jungle to steadily help Evelynn take the jungle camps first.

But the HLE members suddenly discovered—Azir had actually taken the initiative to walk out again, and he was going to continue pushing forward!

Canyon decisively gave the command, continuing to act like a fox flaunting its tiger's might by pushing forward in the jungle, while Twitch waited for his Q skill to come off cooldown to go invisible again and return to the mid lane for a second gank!

This move could be said to be difficult for anyone to detect!

"Wait for me to initiate this time; he should be wary of you being invisible!" Aiming shouted loudly: "I can also block his E. If we force a Flash, it will be very easy to kill him next time!"

Zeka naturally understood, and at the same time, Canyon in the jungle also feigned a more aggressive push.

Twitch had closed in on the mid lane again.

Ye Bo continued to command his sand soldiers to push Qiyana, but suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a "warning" sent back by a soldier in front.

He quickly checked the mini-map, then immediately shouted: "...You guys fight directly in the jungle! They only have two people, Twitch is still here with me!"

Command received.

The top-jungle duo, who had long been unable to hold back, erupted instantly!

The combat power of V5's {K'Sante + Jarvan IV} was clearly stronger than HLE's {Evelynn + Alistar}, but they hadn't dared to act only because they were concerned about Twitch, who could return to defend at any time, and Qiyana, who could cause trouble if she broke away to support.

Jarvan IV EQ-comboed, planting his flag and moving forward!

"How do they dare to engage!?"

Despite being surprised that V5 dared to act directly.

But HLE's support Alistar still reacted extremely quickly, backhanding a W Headbutt to knock him away—but Xun's Jarvan IV used "Airborne Flash" to pass directly through the charge, landing in front of the Evelynn behind with the EQ-Flash effect.

While dodging Alistar's W, he knocked both of them up!

Flandre was equally decisive, flashing E to get close to Jarvan IV, smashing down with his axe, and then using a charged W to just barely dodge Alistar's Flash-Q as he turned back to try and rescue.

Directly staging a "two tough guys flash-attacking a little Evelynn"!

"Evelynn is being forced into a point-blank flash-attack; he has no Flash!!"

"Twitch is already returning to defend, and both mid laners are rushing there, but Aiming is turning back again to try and catch Azir!"

"No! Still no success! Azir's spacing is kept too well!"

"Jarvan IV has already taken Evelynn's First Blood!"

Although the instant burst from Jarvan IV and K'Sante wasn't enough, HLE's mid laner was induced to turn back again and delayed for a moment, and Dragon Strike and Path Maker killed Evelynn before Twitch could arrive.

And because Alistar had used all his skills without dealing any damage, the top and jungle were still in good condition; Jarvan IV had also stacked Conqueror to the max, and since it was hard to fight further, they had to pull back.

The faces of the HLE members were all a bit ugly.

Although due to Azir's performance limitations, it was still not suitable for the jungler to invade, Jarvan IV at least couldn't be so excessive as to continue invading Evelynn's red buff area—but this start for Evelynn could already be said to be extremely painful!

More importantly, the mid lane they had been trying to attack continuously hadn't had any skills forced out!

The Roaring Emperor had an expression of disbelief: "HLE's start is so painful, but what kind of game sense is this from Ye? Twitch didn't show his head the whole time! And there was no vision detecting him either!"

Nuguri also clearly felt something was wrong, but he didn't know what was strange about it.

Only P-kid, upon seeing Canyon give up First Blood, tried hard to keep his expression stiff, doing his best not to let his true emotions show.

With an unfavorable start, Evelynn clearly had no extra ganking ability before level six.

HLE's early-game rhythm could only temporarily slow down.

V5, relying on the suppression of their duo lane that hadn't swapped, started the Little Dragon at exactly 5 minutes, and the double marksmen also pushed down one and a half bottom lane plates; the situation could be called excellent.

And during this time, the most miserable person on the field was not Gnar, who was 1v2 against double marksmen in the bottom lane.

It was Qiyana in the mid lane.

"This mid lane matchup, how does it look a bit wrong..." Hang in the background started to lose control of his little mouth again.

"This Qiyana is almost being suppressed to the point where she can't take care of herself? She's already been forced home for the second time! If she goes back one more time, there's going to be a level difference!"

Scout listened to the voice coming from behind his ear and only felt like this person was pointing at him.

His face felt a bit hot and painful.

Of course, he could also see why the mid lane was so miserable.

The laning logic of Qiyana against Azir is to use the assassin's super-high melee burst ability to deter him -> rely on the grass element to "force a close-in" to force Azir to be unable to perform effective poke, forcing him to keep his distance, and he also has to always hold onto his QE, ready to retreat and create distance at any time, resulting in him being unable to suppress the opponent.

But Ye Bo was not doing that at all.

Besides not using his E, he was instead aggressively pushing forward, and he almost used his Q skill whenever it was available—mainly, Azir was actually able to consistently use WA to "blind-poke" Qiyana, who was hidden in the grass element!

The coverage area of the grass element is by no means small, and for sand soldiers to use minions as a "gun mount" to hit through obstacles, one could say it almost relies entirely on luck!

Yet Ye Bo's Azir was able to consistently "hit through the smoke"!

Scout felt deeply eerie inside.

Fortunately, HLE also had some good news.

Evelynn, whose jungle development had already fallen quite far behind, had shared quite a bit of experience because she was forced home twice in the mid lane, and had successfully reached level six just past the 6-minute mark, which could barely be considered passing.

And the first thing Canyon did after reaching level six was to launch an attack on the mid lane!

"Canyon has come to the mid lane again; Evelynn's game has only just begun from this wave!"

"With this double-assassin burst combination of Qiyana + Evelynn, as long as Azir has half a mistake, it's possible for him to be killed instantly; having Flash is useless!"

"It's coming! This flanking position is perfect; Canyon bypassed V5's Control Ward entrance. This is JugKing's understanding of jungle routes..."

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The Roaring Emperor's voice, which had been boasting about Canyon, came to an abrupt halt.