Chapter 385: No decree, no action, hidden skill
"HLE has suddenly changed direction... it seems they want to steal the mid laner!" Doll at the commentary desk was worried.
"Actually, Master Ye's handling here is already very smart. He knows that his Azir has no combat power to support in the early game, so he only seeks extreme suppression of Qiyana in laning, making it difficult for the opponent to move."
"But Master Ye doesn't seem to have expected that the opponent's real target is him!"
Azir can still pose a bit of a threat in lane by relying on the positioning of his W sand soldiers.
Once entering the jungle melee, the dilemma of not being able to frequently maneuver sand soldiers will be exposed immediately, 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, the top jungle will sooner or later be in his pocket.
Targeting the mid lane is a higher priority!
As a "jungle-carry" jungler, Canyon, who has won the Worlds championship, has a clearer head than some pure toxins who prioritize everything for themselves, knowing what it means to prioritize the big picture.
After the duo lane in the top lane pushed the line, they disappeared from the map. It looked like they wanted to help the jungler invade the top jungle—but in reality, they were heading straight for the mid lane!
Because Azir had been pushing the line to keep Qiyana from leaving, the minion wave was clearly in a dangerous position.
But if he retreated as soon as he saw the top lane miss, all his previous suppression would be in vain, and Qiyana could move immediately; he might even be countered by having the wave frozen and lose out big!
And what really made the commentary desk anxious was—Ye Bo's actions looked as if he hadn't expected the opponent's target to be him at all!
He didn't retreat at all!
"Azir should at least have his Flash burned in this position, Twitch is already stealthily approaching!" The Roaring Emperor roared excitedly.
"As long as Azir's Flash is burned, he basically won't dare to cross the river during the laning phase. This way, Qiyana in the mid lane will master the initiative, and the loss of mid lane priority will make HLE's subsequent offensive rhythm even harder to defend against!"
"Qiyana also stealthily enters the bush, using the characteristic of {picking elements under grass camouflage without warning} to secretly pick up water elements and quietly approach."
"Preparing for a pincer attack with Twitch, who has already stuck to the close point."
"This move was originally the laning strategy Ye Bo used for the first time, and it is also a common laning situation for Qiyana vs Azir. Previously, Azir had no reaction to this move, and it can be said that it is difficult to defend against such a sudden attack."
But just as the two were about to get close, and Qiyana, hidden in the grass element, reached the distance to directly 'borrow minion displacement'..."
Azir suddenly turned around and WE drifted away!
"Seems a bit strange?" The careful Nuguri noticed the abnormality.
It's not 'strange' that Azir noticed the danger and retreated; after all, it's normal to have some vigilance when the top lane misses—the strange thing is that Azir actually had no reason to directly use W+E to pull back!"
Because Azir's E skill in the early game has a full 20-second CD!"
"Even if he really had vigilance, at most he would walk back two steps; it's impossible to hand over his only life-saving skill like this!"
"And if Azir had just walked back two steps, Qiyana's 'borrow minion displacement' water element would definitely hit, and then she could block with her body, making Azir unable to use E 【Shifting Sands】 to pull away, and he would have to hand over Flash."
The stealthy Twitch also appeared in the mid lane.
Unfortunately, neither of them could touch Azir at all, they could only help push the minion wave, and then returned to defend the jungle.
"HLE's attack on the mid lane didn't work, fortunately there was no loss. Evelynn and Alistar were entangled with Jarvan IV in the back of the jungle, even if K'Sante came to support, he would be unable to move due to fear of the ADC returning to defend..."
"Wait!?"
"HLE seems to be making a return attack!"
This time, HLE let Alistar enter the jungle with Evelynn, while Twitch stealthily approached the mid lane to sneak attack, but unfortunately it didn't succeed.
And Twitch's mid lane gank failed. No matter how you look at it, he should be returning to defend the jungle, helping Evelynn take the jungle first.
But HLE's group suddenly found—Azir actually walked out actively again, and wanted to continue pressing forward!"
Canyon commanded decisively, continuing to bully and press forward in the jungle, while Twitch waited for the Q skill to cool down to stealth again and return to the mid lane for a second gank!"
This wave can be said to be hard for anyone to notice!"
"This time let me initiate, he should be prepared for your stealth!" Aiming shouted loudly: "I can also block his E, burn his Flash, and it will be easy to kill next time!"
Zeka naturally understood, and Canyon in the jungle also disguised himself more aggressively.
Twitch had approached the mid lane again.
Ye Bo continued to command the sand soldiers to press Qiyana, but suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a "warning" sent back by a soldier in front.
He quickly checked the mini-map, and then immediately shouted: "... You guys fight directly in the jungle! They only have two people, Twitch is still with me!"
Received the command.
The top-jungle duo, who had been unable to hold back, erupted instantly!"
V5's {K'Sante + Jarvan IV} combat power is clearly stronger than HLE's {Evelynn + Alistar}, but they were only worried about the Twitch who could return to defend at any time, and Qiyana who could cause trouble if she got away, so they didn't dare to make a move."
Jarvan IV EQ comboed and planted the flag forward!"
"How dare they make a move!?"
Despite being surprised that V5 dared to make a move directly."
But HLE's support Alistar still reacted very quickly, counter-attacking with W headbutt to knock him away—but Xun's Jarvan IV directly flashed through the headbutt in the "air," landing in front of Evelynn with the EQ Flash effect."
While dodging Alistar's W, he knocked both of them into the air!"
Flandre was also very decisive, flashing E to stick to Jarvan IV, smashing down with the double axe, and then using the charged W to just dodge Alistar's Flash Q."
Directly staging a "two tough guys flash-attacking a little Evelynn"!"
"Evelynn was forced to be flashed on, he has no Flash!!"
"Twitch is already returning to defend, both mid laners are rushing there... but Aiming turned back again wanting to catch Azir!"
"No! Still didn't succeed! Azir's distance is kept too well!"
"Jarvan IV has already taken Evelynn's first blood!"
Although Jarvan IV and K'Sante's instant burst wasn't enough, HLE's mid lane was induced to turn back and delay for a moment, and the Dragon Strike and Cataclysm arrived before Twitch could reach, killing Evelynn first."
And because Alistar handed over all his skills without causing any damage, the top-jungle status was still good, and Jarvan IV had stacked the Conqueror to the full layer, so it was not easy to fight later and they could only pull away."
HLE's faces were all a bit ugly."
Although Azir's performance limitations still made it unsuitable for the jungler to invade, Jarvan IV at least couldn't be too excessive to continue invading Evelynn's red zone—but this start for Evelynn could already be said to be extremely painful!"
More importantly, the mid lane they wanted to attack continuously didn't have any skills burned!"
The Roaring Emperor had an expression of incomprehension: "This start for HLE is so painful... but what kind of awareness is this from Ye? Twitch didn't show his head the whole time! And there was no vision detected!"
Nuguri also clearly felt something was wrong, but didn't know where it was strange."
Only Pyosik, seeing Canyon give away first blood, tried hard to hold back his expression on the side, trying not to let his true emotions show."
The start was unfavorable, and Evelynn clearly had no extra gank ability before level 6."
HLE's early rhythm could only be temporarily slowed down."
V5, relying on the suppression power of the duo lane that didn't swap, started the small dragon at 5 minutes on time, and the double shooters also pushed down one and a half bottom lane plates, the situation could be called excellent."
And during this time, the most painful person in the audience was not the Gnar who was 1v2 against the double shooters in the bottom lane."
It was Qiyana in the mid lane."
"How does this mid lane matchup look a bit wrong..." Hang in the background started to be unable to control his little mouth again."
"This Qiyana is almost being suppressed to the point of being unable to take care of herself? She's already been beaten home for the second time! If she goes back again, she'll have a level difference!"
Scout heard the voice coming from behind his ears, only feeling if this person was pointing at himself."
His face felt a bit burning with pain."
He of course could see why the mid lane was so miserable."
Qiyana's laning logic against Azir is to deter with the assassin's super high melee burst ability -> rely on grass elements to "force close" to force Azir to be unable to consume effectively, and can only keep distance, and must always hold QE ready to retreat and pull away, leading to being unable to suppress the opponent."
But Ye Bo didn't do that at all."
Besides not handing over E, he kept pressing forward aggressively, and even his Q skill was used almost as soon as it was available—mainly Azir could actually keep using WA to "blindly" poke Qiyana hidden in the grass elements!"
The coverage area of grass elements is not small, and sand soldiers using minions as "gun mounts" to hit across mountains, wanting to hit can be said to be almost entirely dependent on luck!"
But Ye Bo's Azir could keep "hitting through the smoke"!"
Scout felt extremely weird inside."
Fortunately, HLE could be considered to have good news."
Evelynn, whose jungle development had fallen behind, shared a lot of experience because the mid lane was beaten home twice, and had successfully reached level 6 at 6 minutes, barely passing."
And the first thing Canyon did after reaching level 6 was to launch an attack on the mid lane!"
"Canyon came to the mid lane again, Evelynn's game only just started from this wave!"
"With this double assassin burst combo of Qiyana + Evelynn, as long as Azir has half a mistake, he could be killed instantly, and Flash is useless!"
"Here it comes! This flanking position is perfect, Canyon bypassed V5's control ward intersection, this is JugKing's understanding of jungle routes..."
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The Roaring Emperor's voice blowing Canyon's horn stopped abruptly. ===== CHAPTER 386 =====
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The Roaring Emperor's stream of boasting about Canyon came to an abrupt halt.
End of Chapter
