Chapter 54: Double Disintegration! You Dare Eat EDG's Chicken! [5k]

"Here it comes, here it comes, the final battle of Ye Wen!" Xika couldn't help but chime in: "Though it seems both sides are playing it safe at level one with no tricks; the team compositions really don't allow for any tricks anyway."

"Eh? Why didn't Ye Wen buy items!" Kid suddenly widened his eyes, just about to say something.

"Wait a second! Rookie didn't buy items either!" Sun Yalong was full of skepticism: "What are these two doing!"

It was obvious that both team compositions lacked stable level-one crowd control, making a fight basically impossible, so they naturally chose conservative positioning.

Ye Bo walked to the lane alone from mid, wanting to catch a glimpse of Galio to confirm the opponent's starting items.

Of course, he hadn't forgotten to buy items.

Although it was visible that Galio was carrying the "Predator" rune, the professional stage was not a ranked game after all; the laning pressure of starting with boots would increase significantly, and every player's choices in each match were different.

Among the "minimum living allowance inheritance" Ye Bo inherited from the old man, Galio was indeed on the list.

Although the old man's proficiency was barely level five, the basic understanding of the hero was already clear in his mind, enough to assist in the matchup.

But when he saw Galio also walking out from mid.

Ye Bo was stunned!

"Hey no, why didn't he buy items!"

"Whoa, as expected of Rookie, could it be that he calculated this?"

Glancing at the time in the top right corner, Ye Bo had no choice but to retreat and recall immediately.

After some deliberation, he still chose to purchase a "Dagger" + "Refillable Potion," gambling that the opponent's starting choice was "Boots" + "Refillable Potion."

This was a personal understanding Ye Bo developed through his mastery of these two heroes.

The biggest problem with Yone as a hero is actually his early-game weakness; more accurately, it's his reliance on several key item power spikes.

As long as he gets Berserker's Greaves, Yone's laning ability can instantly jump to a higher level, at least ensuring the laning and wave-clearing pressure won't be too great.

Therefore, if it could be confirmed that Galio was using a roaming-utility laning strategy starting with boots, then Yone buying a Dagger wouldn't hurt his combat effectiveness that much.

Compared to buying the Doran's series, it saves a full 450 gold in progress!

"Oh, I get it, he might want to get Berserker's Greaves early to push the wave and roam! No, wait, is this guy thinking about roaming even while playing Yone!?" Sun Yalong speculated after seeing Yone buy the Dagger.

"Whoa!!" Kid suddenly had an expression of sudden realization: "That makes sense then!"

"Rookie must be doing it on purpose, he's baiting!"

"What I remember most is the two times he played against KT and EDG before; he didn't buy items, but ended up out-CSing Ucal and Scout, and he won both those games! This is Rookie's calculation!"

Galio under the tower was dragging the map, communicating tactics with teammates, seemingly completely unaware of the anomaly.

Fortunately, Karsa had a habit of constantly pressing the Tab key to check the scoreboard while playing, pressing it whether there was a reason or not, even if he didn't actually look at it.

And just after pressing it again, the radar alarm triggered.

"Hey Yijin! Why didn't you buy items again!" Karsa's Taiwanese accent sounded a bit anxious.

"Ah ah ah," Rookie glanced at the time in the top right and scratched his head, a bit embarrassed: "Sorry my bad, my bad, but it should be fine, there's still time."

Due to the slightly delayed recall, the minion wave had already begun to spawn.

Seeing this, Rookie naturally chose to buy boots to speed up his return to lane.

The commentary desk naturally captured the abnormal behavior of both mid-laners.

"Wow, wow, wow, it feels like both mid-laners just had a battle of wits in the shadows!" Wawa was also speculating.

"The tempo of the mid-jungle will be very critical in this game, because the top and bottom lanes for both sides are the type that can't really fight!"

"That's true, for V5, they should be relying on this Predator Galio for mobility, right?" Miller followed up with his analysis.

The minion waves met.

Ye Bo felt relieved after checking the equipment tab.

It was the matchup he had anticipated.

From the moment they met, the two were engaged in a battle of positioning.

Galio held his [Colossal Smash], waiting for an opportunity to auto-attack the minions to knock up the opponent, but Yone kept enough distance from the minions.

However, Song Yijin's laning experience was incredibly seasoned.

He noticed that Yone's starting item was a Dagger, which meant his ability to take hard trades was not strong.

Therefore, Song Yijin immediately changed his strategy; instead of waiting to auto-attack the first three minions as usual, he proactively stepped forward to auto-attack the backline minions to force a push.

At this moment, if Yone wanted to turn back to trade, Galio could land his AQ and then use the movement speed from his boots to pull away, and Yone clearly had no chasing ability at level one.

Sure enough, Ye Bo also chose to concede, avoiding taking full damage from the trade.

He didn't even use his Q to poke.

Regarding this, Song Yijin could see the opponent's logic; it was because he was worried that using Q would attract the aggro of the front-line minions and disrupt the wave state.

"Quite detailed handling..." he thought to himself.

However, Galio didn't care about anything else, stepping forward on his own to smash out his passive shockwave, then pulling back to adjust his angle to fire a Winds of War covering six minions, before leisurely stepping back.

At the same time, while waiting for his Q ability's cooldown, Galio deliberately stayed parallel to the front-line minions, boldly auto-attacking them to maintain the push.

Although Yone's Q ability had a long range, allowing him to kite the melee Galio by staying at the edge of his attack range.

But Galio could also use this point to use his own body to attract minion aggro and manipulate the wave!

This way of quickly mastering the minion wave often has miraculous effects when forcibly reversing the minion state of "short-range vs. long-range."

This was also Song Yijin's response based on his many years of rich laning experience.

It's just that Song Yijin was going to miscalculate this time.

Because he didn't understand Yone well enough.

Although Yone did indeed step forward as if wanting to Q through the minions to hit him, and Galio even deliberately gave him the opening.

But, just as Yone thrust out his Mortal Steel, hitting both the front-line minions and Galio at the same time.

The minions did not change their aggro!

"Hmm?"

Song Yijin keenly sensed something was wrong immediately, but Galio's level one Q had an 11-second cooldown, so it was impossible to just walk up and auto-attack for his passive now.

He didn't want to believe it, so he shifted his position slightly.

3 seconds later, another Mortal Steel thrust out, hitting both the person and the minions again.

The minions' aggro was still attracted just as he expected!

Song Yijin was a relatively diligent player; although he played Yone less often, he had practiced him seriously.

He clearly remembered that when he played Yone, using Q to poke would definitely attract minion aggro because Yone's Q was essentially a basic attack!

And as everyone knows, basic attacks and targeted abilities against heroes will immediately attract minion aggro.

Song Yijin's understanding of Yone's Q was only half-correct.

The Q ability is indeed a basic attack in nature.

But in the ability's additional description, it is actually clearly written: {Applies on-hit effects to the 'first enemy' hit}.

This means that if Q hits multiple targets simultaneously, only the first unit will be affected by the {single-target attack} effect, while the others are secondary targets, enjoying what is naturally considered an AOE attack property.

Simply put, Yone only needs to Q the minions first, then Q the person.

He won't attract minion aggro and can freely perform 450-yard piercing Q pokes!

This impact directly caused Galio to be unable to step up to auto-attack minions while his abilities were on cooldown, forcing him to stand behind the wave and wait honestly for his passive and Q cooldowns to rotate before he could step up.

In this way, Yone's difficulty in competing for the wave early on was instantly changed!

With the attack speed bonus from the Dagger, Yone has a Q every 3 seconds, a whirlwind every 9 seconds, and can even constantly auto-attack to push the wave.

Compared to Galio's 11-second Winds of War, there was no way he couldn't win the push!

And that's not all.

Upon reaching level 2, the advantage of the Dagger was even more apparent.

It seemed that the combat effectiveness of the {Dagger} was far inferior to the {Doran's} series.

But in reality, a 300-gold Dagger could shorten his 12.7-second W to 9.8 seconds!

One W was almost enough to negate Galio's Winds of War poke, and the cooldown was even shorter!

How could Ye Bo not see that a Predator Galio would inevitably want to make plays early on.

Therefore, the logic of starting with a Dagger, besides wanting to get Berserker's Greaves as soon as possible to quickly transition into his comfort zone, was more importantly to maintain lane priority as much as possible during the weakest first six levels.

Of course, this required Galio to also purchase boots with no laning ability; otherwise, whether it was a Doran's Ring or Corrupting Potion, the laning phase would be under huge pressure, leading to being forced to use TP too early, thus having the opposite effect.

Furthermore, Rookie, who was laning, could feel it very clearly.

The opponent Yone's behavior and details were the kind of fluidity and naturalness that had truly gone through thousands of actual combat trials, as if it had all become a combat instinct.

The director's camera focused on the mid lane.

Seeing Yone step forward with wind pressure, not giving Galio a perfect Q angle, while also attracting minion aggro through forward pressure to influence the wave state, and then using a W to perfectly negate the initial damage of the Winds of War for a no-damage trade.

"Rookie seems to be getting pressured!" Xika shouted: "Who just said Galio is good against Yone? It doesn't look like it to me~"

"Don't be anxious! It's normal for Galio to be slightly pressured early on; this hero wasn't picked for laning!" Kid argued anxiously.

3 minutes in.

Galio was forced to lose lane priority before level three, and the wave was kept by Yone at a position slightly in front of the center.

Yone seemed unafraid of Poppy coming to gank, his positioning was very arrogant, which actually made Rookie feel suspicious.

Karsa looked at the movement in the mid lane and decided to stick to his own plan.

"Yijin, I feel like Sejuani might be doing F6, I want to invade, can you come?"

"I can! At least I can arrive together with Yone!"

Poppy, as a hero, looks like a tanky meat shield.

But in reality, her dueling ability in the jungle is not weak at all; in fact, her solo-kill rate is extremely high!

The reason lies in the fact that the walls in the jungle make it easier to land an E wall-stun compared to the wide-open terrain of the lanes, allowing the hero's super high damage to be easily fully realized.

Furthermore, the matchup here is against Sejuani!

Karsa has a nickname, "Radar Brother," meaning he can often inexplicably discover the opposing jungler's position without vision information.

Of course, this ability is naturally not some metaphysical mystery, but stems from Karsa's extremely rich experience as a veteran in jungle matchups, plus his proficiency in studying opponents' recordings before matches to analyze their jungle habits.

The timing was calculated perfectly.

It was exactly the moment the level-one river ward expired; Poppy traveled through the river and snuck into the F6 camp by hugging the wall.

Even the route Karsa chose was completed because he discovered that when Jiejie uses Sejuani to clear the jungle, he has a habit of using his Q skill to dash through the wall into the inner side, which weakens the vision at the entrance!

As a herbivorous jungler, unless there is a special design, Sejuani will generally choose the conventional route of clearing four camps.

And under the god's-eye view at this moment—Sejuani really was clearing the F6!

"Karsa, it's him again! It's started, monster invasion!" Sun Yalong shouted loudly.

"It looks like Jiejie is in trouble!"

Seeing Poppy appear behind, Sejuani immediately felt something was wrong.

But Poppy had snuck over while hugging the wall and had already entered the collision range of Poppy's E skill!

Poppy used an E to slam Sejuani into the wall, then followed up with Q [Hammer Shock], knocking down both the person and the chickens!

Smite crashed down, and the Greater Razorbeak perished immediately.

"Damn it!" Jiejie felt heartbroken seeing the big bird he had worked so hard to attack get executed.

But he also knew he had to run first.

"I'm coming, Jiejie!" Seeing the conflict erupt on the mini-map, Ye Bo immediately abandoned his minions and set off, gathering wind in his hand with a Q on the minions before leaving.

Song Yi followed closely half a step behind.

With Poppy's skills fully landed, the damage was incredibly high; the two-stage percentage damage of the Q skill, plus the two-stage damage from a successful E wall-slam, took half of Sejuani's health in one full combo!

More importantly, because Sejuani had Q'd into the F6, she had no Q skill at all at this moment!

Jiejie made a prompt decision and used Flash over the wall.

"Can we still fight, Master Ye? But Poppy still has his W!" Jiejie shouted urgently.

Ye Bo's mind quickly analyzed the situation.

Although Sejuani had been hit by a full combo first and was left crippled, in reality, Poppy had also basically used all his skills.

If they gave up the position now and waited for Poppy's skills to refresh and reset, then without a doubt, at least the Red Buff would definitely have to be handed over.

The jungle would become quite miserable.

Ye Bo was very clear about the importance of their mid-jungle duo as the rhythm engine for this game.

Although the "Sejuani-Yone Combo" was a system they hadn't practiced for long, they had already gained quite a bit of experience with it.

If they were going to fight, it had to be now!

"We can fight, wait for me to go in first!"

Predator was already active, and Galio had also arrived from the side.

At the same time, more importantly, Poppy was lurking inside the F6 wall.

Poppy held [Steadfast Presence] in his hand, ready at any moment.

"What is he doing! Does Ye Wen still want to fight here!!" Xiaohai Youshen shouted excitedly.

"He's going to be surrounded by the mid and jungle like this! This is the roaming support of Galio!"

Whether it was Yone's Q3 or E1 dash, both would be blocked by Steadfast Presence and fall into a {Grounded} state; if he used one, he couldn't use the second.

More importantly, if Yone aimed his Q3 directly at the wall, he would be blocked outside the wall!

This meant Yone could only meet the Predator-activated Galio in a narrow path and choose to go around the wall together.

To everyone, it seemed that way.

"We can counter-attack Yone first, Sejuani has no health and no threat, burning his Flash is fine too!" Karsa also noticed this opportunity, his eyes fixed on Yone's movements.

But at this moment, the person outside the wall made a strange move.

Yone was seen stepping back, then, facing the direction of the wall, he unleashed his Q3 wind slash blankly.

Karsa naturally couldn't fail to react, pressing against the wall and activating his resistance aura!

But the wind slash did not stop there.

The spirit body retreated and squeezed out of the physical body; under the second-stage boost, the original single-stage dash was mixed and combined into two stages!

Yone, who was indeed blocked, was forcibly "squeezed" into the wall by this unstoppable second-stage boost!

And because the wind Q's cyclone was already unleashed, it would not be affected by interruptions, causing Poppy to immediately take the knock-up and damage upon landing!

A frost mark appeared on Poppy.

Yone attacked again with AWA, directly applying three stacks of the frost passive onto Poppy.

"Come, Jiejie! Poppy!"

Sejuani's Q skill had not yet reset, but Jiejie, who had been ready for a long time, threw out his W ice chain from the rear, instantly coordinating to max out the passive.

Then he threw out his E skill to complete the stun and walked up to break the freeze!

Sejuani and Poppy are both heroes who, if they can fully land their skills, have considerable damage and both have the potential to kill each other.

The difficulty with Poppy lies in the wall-slam.

The difficulty with Sejuani lies in how to fully land the E ice-breaking passive.

This is the reason for the birth of the "Sejuani-Yone Combo"!

Yone's basic attacks and Q can both stack frost layers, and because of the "basic attack nature," Q can even stack layers on multiple people simultaneously with AoE!

And because Yone forcibly squeezed through the wall, he saved a long detour.

Even with Predator's speed boost, Galio could only arrive a step late.

The stone statue spread its wings to charge; because Poppy's health was already in jeopardy, the anxious Rookie could only use a short-charge W and then kick off with a back-step!

"Brother Ka, run! I can get away!"

"Go toward the river, Kennen is coming from above!" Top laner Rich gave a warning on his way over.

Karsa did not hesitate, using Galio's instant control to immediately Flash backward.

But Ye Bo did not want to let him go.

Galio's short W could only control for 0.5 seconds; Ye Bo looked at the Galio kicking back, but he did not retract his E at the first moment.

He was waiting for that punch to kick in.

Yone stood in front of Sejuani, taking the punch—but he resisted it hard and returned to his spirit body!

If this punch hit Yone, the brief knock-up time would be enough to give Poppy time to run into the river.

And if Yone pressed his return E, he could still hit the almost parallel Sejuani, using the knock-up to land the continuous percentage damage of the gale and complete a 1-for-1 trade.

Song Yi's plan was perfect.

But it was perfectly countered by this timely return, neutralizing the control and dismantling both results!

Galio still wanted to turn back to rescue.

But it was already too late.

The moment Yone landed, he decisively used Flash to pursue, not giving Poppy a chance to kite, and added one last Q at maximum range.

It pierced right through Poppy's chest!

"A Flash-assisted Steel Tempest! Pizza has been taken down!" Sun Yalong's expression changed instantly: "Holy crap, Ye Wen is the clutch man, he saved the jungle's life!"

"Rookie should be able to get away..." Xiaohai Youshen was full of worry and extremely nervous.

[Pizza has started, pitting my Rookie!]

[EDG suffered a huge loss, why a huge loss? Although they got a kill, I'll just ask you, what about the chicken! What about the chicken!]

[Pizza, how dare you? Don't you know the rules of the road! Do you know what happens to those who steal EDG's chickens!]

[Little brat, watch your account! You're finished!]

[There will definitely be retribution! I have a premonition that Pizza will die 7 times this game!]

Sorry brothers, I'm late.

I have to say, my mindset was somewhat affected, so I spent quite a lot of time adjusting tonight.

But now I have fully recovered!

It's not a big problem~

We all have our own lives; playing games, watching streamers, reading novels, that's not just for the sake of the competition~~

Reality has regrets, I hope little Ye Bo's world can bring everyone some happiness.

Today is another beautiful day!

5k words first for one chapter!

The rest is still being written; 15k today, definitely won't be less, I will finish this match!

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