Chapter 51: Mechanics and Bugs, AD and Eggs [4k Combined]

"Huh? How did 69 get solo-killed at level three!" Jiejie had just finished admiring the imperial-style PK between his two teammates in the mid lane when he suddenly heard the good news coming from the top lane.

"Oh no, looks like the spacing failed. As expected, it’s still not working." Ye Bo suppressed his laughter: "By the way, Zoe has no Flash."

"OK, anyway, Brother 69 should at least be able to hold steady, let’s go for the mid lane first!"

Solo kills in ranked games are actually quite normal; after all, even professional players cannot maintain their best competitive state at all times. Faker is also frequently solo-killed in ranked, which is how the nickname "Li Guapi" came about.

It was just very obvious that everyone had underestimated the intensity of the top lane.

Yone versus Gnar in lane is a matchup that truly tests the individual skill levels of both sides.

Although Yone has powerful gap-closing abilities, once the Q3 dash misses, he will immediately be chased down and countered by Gnar; he won't be able to handle it after at most two mistakes.

So, simply put, this is a matchup that depends on mechanics, and even more so on spacing.

But as it happens, one person's spacing performance wasn't very ideal.

In just 6 minutes, another report of victory came from the top lane.

However, the good news was that the mid lane was also successfully arrested during another "repeatedly lurking" gank by the jungler Jarvan IV.

"Zhao Lijie!!!" Scout let out a long howl toward the sky, his voice echoing in the base.

"Hm? Are you calling me?" Ye Bo took off his headset and turned his head in confusion.

"What~ did~ you~ say~ Brother Rui Can! I have my headset on! I can't~ hear~ you~!" Jiejie tilted his head, shouting back with an innocent look.

Scout gritted his teeth.

Knowing I'm on a damn livestream and still making me lose face!

You fickle guy!

Ranked games are very different from professional matches.

Especially the factors that can influence the game.

As everyone knows, in public ranked games, the top and bottom lanes are relatively less easy positions to carry the game from.

By comparison, the mid-jungle duo are the frequent guests of "god-tier carries" in public games.

And although both sides had 3 professional players in this match, the distribution of their positions could be said to be quite unfair.

The mid-jungle duo formed by Ye Bo and Jiejie, with Ye Bo having already established a solo advantage in the mid lane at the start, quickly controlled and dominated the match.

The Hecarim, operated by a public player, was also a player at the Grandmaster level on the Korean server.

But having run into this kind of LPL-level mid-jungle opposition, and being unable to communicate fluently with his own mid laner, being suppressed for the entire game was only natural.

So this is also why the officials want to close the duo-queue channel for the Master tier and above.

Otherwise, with the mid-jungle, bot-support, or top-jungle duo combinations formed by professional players, it would easily lead to an imbalance in high-ELO levels, forming a "dimensional strike" against those high-ELO players whose skill levels are actually not low.

"Hajima!"

Gumayusi inside the T1 base, after being sneak-attacked by Akshan from the minion wave once again, couldn't help but wail: "Aiya, this hero is so disgusting. If the support isn't smart enough, you just can't defend against it!"

"Woo-je, can you kill faster? Brother can't hold on anymore." Top laner Zeus replied upon hearing the voice from next door: "The rhythm of the mid-jungle on the other side is a bit good this game."

"Eh? The fans say the mid-jungle on the other side is... EDG's?"

The streaming contracts for all T1 members are signed with Douyu, which is considered the most watched LCK team in the country, and the chat had actually reminded them of this long ago.

It was just that they couldn't understand the Chinese, and the translator had only just translated this part.

"Isn't the EDG mid laner Brother Rui Can? He's here with us, I recognize his ID."

"Oh, is that so? But Brother Rui Can... seems a bit miserable this game."

Zeus and Gumayusi are both members of the new generation of T1 and clearly don't know Scout at all, but out of the usual Korean seniority customs, they still had to call him "Brother."

Zeus and Gumayusi are both members of the new generation of T1, and they clearly do not know Scout at all, but out of the customary Korean seniority traditions, they still have to call him brother regardless.

That mid lane just now, it seems he was solo-killed at level two...

Even faster than he killed the person on the other side!

"It's okay, I feel like the top laner on the other side only has Diamond III level, I'll look for more opportunities." Zeus stated his objective evaluation directly.

"But the audience says the top laner on the other side is also a professional top laner, and a top-tier first-line one at that!"

"Really? No way, right?" Zeus was clearly much more surprised to hear this than he was to hear that Zoe was Scout: "Could it be... an impostor?"

After listening to the ID Gumayusi said, Zeus found that he really didn't have much of an impression of this person.

The only LPL top laners he has a deep memory of now are three.

One is Bin, who just finished MSI with him and beat him, one is TheShy, whose fame makes it impossible not to know him, and one is Flandre, who just won the championship.

As for this "Number Man," he wasn't very clear.

However, he clearly didn't take it to heart; after all, there is really no point in remembering the ID of someone who isn't strong enough.

For players belonging to two different regions, the almost unique chance to meet is the two World Championships every year. If one side doesn't even make it to the World Championship, then there really won't be any intersection.

If they could meet at the World Championship, there would always be a chance to remember them.

It's just a pity that Zeus miscalculated.

Although the "Number Man" top laner's mechanics looked dull, when it came to running away, he was quite the expert.

After all, a good spinning top knows how to rotate and revolve; it comes with an isolation attribute naturally.

Although Yone had already established a large laning advantage, it was still very difficult to forcibly kill a Gnar who only knew how to spin under the tower.

Furthermore, the rhythm of the opposing mid-jungle was too good, completely crushing his own jungler; the rhythm of the entire game was being led by the two of them, and it was hard for him as a top laner to do anything alone.

In this game, Ye Bo tried a special style, which was the "Invisible Mosquito Style" of maxing W after Q at level three.

Akshan's W has a cooldown as long as 18 seconds at level one, but it reduces a huge amount of cooldown with every level.

After maxing it out, it has only a 2-second cooldown, and it also becomes zero mana cost.

In situations where Akshan's E skill cannot be fully utilized, he relies on basic attacks and the passive three-hit proc for output; both Q and E can be treated as three-hit triggers, so he wouldn't lack damage too much just because he maxed W.

More importantly, this playstyle itself wasn't meant for "acting alone" at all.

Zoe, seemingly without a jungler and without Flash, didn't dare to go out too much, otherwise, it would be very easy for Jarvan IV to directly trap her with an ultimate and kill her.

Under the roaming of Akshan and Jarvan IV, the Yone in the top lane also began to suffer consecutive snipes by the three of them.

This formed a stark contrast with the mid lanes of both sides.

Scout's expression was a bit ugly.

But what made him break down even more was that, just when the outcome was almost certain.

The Korean server public chat, which hadn't turned off "all chat," saw his own jungler Hecarim typing out Pinyin to interact with the other side.

《Qijixingzhe (Hecarim): Yeshifu, woshinifensia!》

The livestream chat was instantly amused, and the comments began to mock him.

【This is our Jie-Bo duo, does your side have such a Jie-Bo mid-jungle?】

【Worthy of being the starters! The difference is clear at a glance; can't win the lane, can't win the mechanics, can't win the roaming, pure mid-lane gap!】

【No, you haters are really forcing it! It's too disgusting! Can't you see how the jungler ganked this game? Jiejie is also, he doesn't know how to respect his elders at all! And this Hecarim is clearly a Chinese actor! Look, he's already exposed himself!】

【Indeed, indeed, being pushed out of lane at level one and solo-killed at level two is totally the jungler's problem, it's all the Hecarim's fault for stealing the jungle camps! It caused our mid laner to have no camps to farm!】

【Reflect on why high-ELO players are fans of Master Ye, and not fans of the "Thief Saint"?】

【Hecarim at 3/3/0 is an actor, but the opposing top laner with a huge advantage at 2/5/0 isn't an actor, right? In the end, it's still a mid-jungle gap, the big brothers on both sides have legs of different thickness.】

Compared to the chaos in Scout's livestream chat.

The livestream chat of 369 on the other side was unexpectedly harmonious.

Perhaps because they discovered he was laning against Zeus, this young T1 player who had just debuted this year and won the LCK Spring Championship with his team was undoubtedly already the top candidate for the top lane globally.

369's fans have always been very tolerant of him; being beaten up by the opponent is something he can still comfort himself about.

【69, keep it up! It's just a ranked game, it doesn't prove anything! Wait until this year's World Championship to get revenge!】

【No problem, T1 was beaten by RNG at MSI, and RNG was beaten by JDG in the Summer Split, what does that prove? T1, if you have the ability, get into the World Championship, let's see how our JDG beats them up this year!】

【Good for you 369, daring to pit my Master Ye, just wait! Sooner or later I'll get revenge!】

【69, you really need to practice your Gnar more】

But when he saw that earnest, well-meaning advice in the chat, his fragile mentality couldn't hold up again, and he snorted angrily in the livestream.

"Ahhh, I'm not playing anymore!"

"I really don't want to practice this hero ever again!"

At 21 minutes, a game with a huge advantage in the mid, jungle, and bottom lanes had almost no suspense left, and the blue side was already preparing to attack the high ground.

And Gumayusi, hiding in the virtual wall of the high ground, prepared to steal a Blighted Quiver shot to coordinate with Yone for the final team fight.

But at this moment, an Akshan who had quietly hugged the wall and crept over appeared again!

Boomerang followed by double auto-attack, plus the hook-shot EE instant-fire upon landing.

Varus turned around and threw his R with lightning-fast reflexes, but immediately after, another boomerang was thrown out!

Varus used Flash, but Akshan had already activated his ultimate in advance to lock on and fire.

Wei Lusi burned Flash, but Akshan had already activated his ultimate in advance to lock on and fire.

"Eh??"

Gumayusi and Ye Bo, at both ends, issued sounds of surprise at the same time.

Gumayusi was shocked by the damage of this hero; he didn't feel anything else was wrong.

But Ye Bo frowned in confusion.

"This seems to be a bug..."

Ye Bo had just pressed Q+EE for the instant-fire because the E skill has a supplementary shot of damage when landing on the third stage that can instantly trigger the passive.

But if he were bound by Varus's ultimate first, he would fall directly, and he would also lose this portion of the damage.

But if he is first rooted by the ultimate ability of Wei Lusi, he will fall directly and also lose that portion of damage.

But perhaps because he pressed it very quickly, and also quite normally pressed Q a few extra times, the combo unexpectedly turned into QEEQ.

For some inexplicable reason, he instantly unleashed two Qs!

Furthermore, he also discovered that right after the ultimate was pressed, the icon for the Q ability had actually refreshed!

Three Qs in one second?

For a long time, it has been very difficult for League of Legends to determine the boundary between "mechanic" and "bug."

Even the designers have slapped their own faces countless times in announcements, unable to explain it clearly at all.

Some people believe that as long as it isn't written in the ability description, it's a bug.

But others retort that if that were the case, "Lee Sin's R doesn't say it can Flash-kick," "Riven's passive doesn't say she can use Q for fast-comboing," "Tristana's W doesn't say it has crowd control cancellation ability," and "Azir's EQ long-range drift far exceeds the distance of his E itself."

Still others believe that one should learn from the great spirit of a certain sandbox open-world game.

Anyway, as long as the officials haven't deleted it, it's a mechanic!

It's a feature!

After all, players and pros are here to play the game, not to make the game; is it our problem if a bug appears?

Regarding this, Ye Bo's personal thought is:

As long as one can find the principle of the mechanic and perform an operation that can "explain" the mechanic, then it counts as a reasonable "mechanic."

But regarding this three-Q sequence, no matter how Ye Bo looks at it, it doesn't seem like a mechanic, and he can't find a reasonable explanation for it.

That is why he said it was like a bug.

And if it is a bug, Ye Bo believes that as a professional player now, he certainly cannot use it.

"What did you say, what bug?" Jiejie asked from the voice chat.

"I don't know, I think I discovered an Akshan bug; I'm going to go report it to the officials."

Because Ye Bo was not streaming, the audience did not see his first-person perspective and did not know what it was exactly.

Of course, in fact, this was indeed something Ye Bo accidentally pulled off; he didn't know about it beforehand.

However, this upright behavior still instantly garnered praise again.

The atmosphere in the stream seemed to suddenly become heavy, with the chat full of reminders from cooks not to add too much salt.

Seeing Ye Bo really go to report it to the officials, Jiejie continued to queue up himself.

On the other side.

The two from T1 also restarted their queue.

And Gumayusi, who had been inexplicably killed in seconds, was currently chatting helplessly in his stream, with the translator lady translating in real-time.

"That's right, this is ADC, this is just how it feels."

"How should I put it, if I use instant noodles to describe it, the AD is the egg."

"Top, mid, jungle, and support are the noodles, water, seasoning packet, and bowl, while the AD is the egg; if you have it, it's great, if you don't, it's also fine."

"Only when both sides are the exact same ramen and the exact same bowl will the side with the egg taste much better; yeah, that's about the feeling of being an AD."

As Gumayusi spoke, he turned his head to look left and right; only Oner, who was also in queue, was closest.

"Xuanjun, do you think I'm right?"

Oner also turned his head, his expression seeming to lag for a moment, then he nodded and replied: "Yeah, boiled eggs with salt taste good."

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Li Xianghe, who was pushing the door open, walked in while gnawing on a banana and asked: "What boiled eggs?"

"Nothing, I was wrong; our jungler's brain probably only has protein powder and boiled eggs in it. He even uses protein powder as a seasoning packet when cooking noodles!"

"By the way, Xianghe-hyung, Zeus and I just got wrecked by an Akshan in a game. This hero seems to have something to him; do you want to try him too?"

Li Xianghe pulled out his chair and sat down: "Akshan? This hero is no good."

Not daring to join in the teasing, Zeus, who was trying hard to hold back his laughter, then chimed in: "Maybe it's just that the person played well; isn't that the new EDG mid laner? His mechanics were actually quite good."

"That's for sure, otherwise how could he rotate in for Scout-hyung? Didn't he also get a solo kill at level two?" Gumayusi replied as a matter of course.

Hearing the name of an old friend, Li Xianghe clearly became interested all of a sudden.

That actually sounded a bit interesting.

"What's his ID?"

"I don't know, we can ask the stream... oh, it seems to be called, Ye?"

"Ye."

Li Xianghe repeated this ID, swallowing the last bite of his banana.

He did not stream today, but he still opened the client to queue for ranked as usual.

Just while waiting in the queue.

Li Xianghe, having nothing to do, also searched for this ID in the web browser to check the opponent's upcoming schedule.

And these daily chats of the T1 members were all broadcast through the stream, quickly sparking a heated discussion on major video platforms.

[It's a new month, asking for monthly tickets qaq!]

[Launching the day after tomorrow on the 3rd at noon, I'll start exploding with 10,000 words a day!]

Two-in-one 4k!

The Akshan double-Q is definitely a bug; I won't write about things that are definitely bugs like this in matches, so everyone can rest assured. At most, I'll share it as a bit of entertainment trivia in daily life.

Of course, my stance is that this stuff is indeed very hard to define, and being too serious is actually meaningless (except for those malicious bugs that kill people in one shot).

So I suggest everyone not to be too serious. As long as it hasn't been explicitly banned by officials for use in matches [like the Akshan double-Q or Akali double-Q, which have been banned by officials for use in matches], don't treat it as one.

After all, if a bug can't be fixed for four or five years, then in a certain sense, it can't really be called a bug anymore.

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