Chapter 63: Rebirth: I, Ye Hansan, Have Returned! The Pythagorean Steel of the Phantom Wave

Ye Bo searched for IDs on the loading screen and discovered that not only were JackeyLove and Faker on the opposing team, but the support in the bottom lane also seemed to be a professional player.

Moreover, it was none other than On, whom he had faced in his previous match against WBG.

However, because someone had disconnected, the loading speed was very slow, so he first edited his stream room details according to his slightly rusty memory.

In any case, it was still early before twelve o'clock, and since he had queued into such an interesting match, he simply decided to start the stream to find his groove and hung up a title.

"Rebirth: I, Ye Hansan, Have Returned!"

Because the originally scheduled premiere date was tomorrow, and the contract had been finalized overnight, none of the corresponding stream pushes were set up yet.

This resulted in very few viewers in the stream room, with only a dozen or so people flooding in at first.

[???????????]

[Holy crap! What am I seeing!]

[An important person, a person I cannot forget! Who are you?]

[My youth is back! The 'Grandpa' my grandpa follows has actually started streaming!]

[Is Bilibili not being sensible? Why is there so little popularity? Is this how you treat a big star who started on Bilibili!]

Ye Bo looked at those incredibly familiar old IDs and felt a sense of deep intimacy.

It was as if time had rolled back a month; back then, he was still a nobody, and every day in the stream room, it was just these few people chatting and keeping each other company.

This was also why, even though Abul told him that Douyu had a stronger "money-making" ability, he still didn't hesitate and kept his heart set on returning to stream on Bilibili.

It wasn't because of the platform; it was because of the people.

Although there might not be many people, Ye Bo had always kept them in mind and had always been thinking about these promises he once made.

"You guys are still the fastest to arrive. Doesn't Brother Cheng have to work the night shift tonight?"

"Haha, didn't I promise you guys? I'd come back to stream once I made it as a pro. It’s all about keeping one's word!"

"But today is just a casual stream; tomorrow is the actual premiere."

Ye Bo chatted leisurely with the viewers in the stream room and quickly regained his old feeling; several old viewers typed 'teary-eyed'.

Today's Ye Bo was clearly completely different; he had already become a rising star in the LPL arena, his fame and fan base had multiplied countless times, and even at the competition venue, many people would call out his name.

Yet in the eyes of these old viewers, he seemed unchanged.

The match finished loading, Ye Bo switched screens to enter the game, and casually explained the matchup.

"It's a bit of a pity I couldn't lane against Brother Li. Brother Li is even playing Akshan this game! What a pity, what a pity."

"But it's fine, this Kai'Sa on the opposite side seems to be JackeyLove, and our AD is Deft."

"Hey? What do you mean 'can the streamer play Pyke and not throw the game for Alpaca'? Pyke is the support the streamer is best at, okay? You can tell at a glance you're a fake fan!"

Although this Pyke game was a randomly triggered challenge, in reality, it was indeed the support Ye Bo played the most; 80% of his autofill games were on this champion.

The reason was self-evident; after all, the Bloodharbor Ripper was the only "Assassin-type Support" in the official "initial settings."

As for Shaco support or LeBlanc support, those were strategies developed by players themselves and didn't count as "orthodox."

As an assassin specialist, even when autofilled to support, Ye Bo naturally preferred playing this type of hero.

It was just that he only played it when autofilled, so his original Pyke proficiency was at most approaching level five, or even less than level five.

And after triggering the conditions matching the matchup, the random "On-the-Spot Amplification" effect raised his Pyke proficiency to level six.

Just at this moment, his teammate Galio suddenly sent an interaction request.

[wulaidafa: ye?]

[wulaidafa: Bloodharbor Ripper - Alive] *5

Ye Bo thought it was just some random fan.

But after taking a closer look at the ID, his mind raced and he suddenly recognized the other person, immediately sending a friendly interaction.

"See! Those haters in the comments section who said the streamer was leeching, speak up! I told you Master Ye and the streamer have a good relationship; we're all brothers!" Wang Chujun boasted, trying to make himself look good. After all, with Ye Bo's high attention recently, he had managed to produce several viral videos.

"He also came to Bilibili to stream? Is that for real? This shouldn't be a small matter."

Wang Chujun switched out of the game screen and searched for Ye Bo's Bilibili account.

However, it was slightly awkward that he didn't remember what Ye Bo's Bilibili account was called. After searching for nicknames like "Grandpa," "Ip Man," "Master Ye," and "Auntie Brother" without finding the real person, he stole a glance at the bullet comments and suddenly realized.

"Uh, no, Master Ye didn't really use Bilibili when he was in the youth training camp before; the streamer and he communicated via WeChat!"

Clicking into the stream room, he discovered it was actually true.

Wang Chujun looked at the liveliness of his own stream room and the reaction of the bullet comments to Ye Bo.

He gritted his teeth and sent a 2,000-yuan {Admiral} gift, then immediately tried to recoup his losses on the spot: "Giving my brother some support, everyone else should also give the streamer some support. If not, buying a pair of trendy shoes on the homepage works too..."

Unfortunately, Ye Bo had already switched back to the game screen and didn't see the gift notification.

However, after this traffic diversion, his stream room began to gain people rapidly, and the popularity rose at a visible speed.

[Chu Gou lost his mind; Master Ye didn't even see it. How many more pairs of shoes does he have to sell?]

[Small-minded; Chu Gou has earned so much just by leeching off the traffic recently; this stingy guy only sent an Admiral!]

[Support! Master Ye, I'm your fan! If you had come earlier, who would still be watching Chu Saint!]

[Good heavens, it's Water Brother on the other side. EDG plays TES next week; he's testing the waters for his own support in advance, right?]

[The opposing support is WBG's On. I came from his stream; he said he must avenge Shy Brother this game!]

[Autofilled support, why do I feel like the bottom lane is going to get crushed this game?]

While they were having a team-building session here, the opposing bottom lane duo also learned of the matchup through the bullet comments.

Professional players are different from most high-ranked random players; they don't care much about the IDs of their opponents or teammates, and rarely take the initiative to specifically open a website to check. This was a habit Ye Bo hadn't changed yet in his ranked games.

Moreover, Ye Bo's Korean server account had actually only been played for a week. Although he climbed ranks quickly and had a brief moment of fame in the game laning against Scout's Zoe, it was far from the level of being "familiar."

At this time, the Bloodharbor Ripper had already arrived at a strange place.

He was pinging signals for his teammates.

At the DRX base, Deft was still using the Chinese Pinyin he was about to forget to read the content in the bottom-left chat box, looking suspiciously at the signals his support was pinging for him.

"What does this person want to do?"

"Ambush? But we can't win a 2v2 at level one."

Because their jungler was Fiddlesticks, who chose to start at the blue buff in the upper half at level one, the bottom lane duo didn't need to help leash and had free time.

But the problem was Caitlyn + Pyke.

Even if they really ambushed the opponents at level one, they couldn't possibly beat Kai'Sa + Nautilus in a head-on fight!

Kai'Sa was carrying {Hail of Blades}, and as a gold-standard duo, Nautilus's Q and passive auto-attack could both stack plasma for Kai'Sa; Kai'Sa could almost instantly proc her passive!

As long as Nautilus landed any counter-attack, it would be very easy to die instead.

But in random games, the poor ADC has no initiative.

Whether the bottom lane fights or not, plays passively or aggressively, or even "feeds" or doesn't, basically depends on how the support wants to play; this is the true situation of the bottom lane.

In a sense, the "Egg Theory" really isn't without reason.

Ye Bo hit enter and typed the command [justpoke!].

Although Ye Bo's academic performance was average, because his father was an English teacher, he had built a good foundation since childhood and could manage simple communication.

It was just that Deft was even more confused: "How can our duo play poke? We can't handle their counter-attack!"

Struggling with the poor communication, seeing that this Chinese support had made up his mind, he had no choice but to follow along.

And BeryL, sitting behind him and rubbing his phone screen, heard his own AD's self-deprecating grumbling. During his spare time while transitioning to synthesize resin, he glanced over twice.

At 1 minute and 40 seconds, the minion wave arrived.

After the blue side bottom lane helped leash the jungle, the two of them drove straight to the lane from the river below.

Just as Deft saw, this bottom lane duo looked like the opponents had the upper hand at level one; there was no reason for the bottom duo to be timid and take a detour.

Deft didn't learn W, because that could at most trap the first person entering the bush.

Nautilus and Kai'Sa approached the bush one after the other.

Pyke began to charge his hook, but his positioning was strangely leaning toward the upper side.

Just as Nautilus was about to be the first to step into the bush, the fully charged Bone Skewer was released, hitting the Nautilus in front and pulling him—

Directly pinning him to the wall with a "Backwards Hook"!

Piltover Peacemaker flew out at the same time, hitting both of them in the air.

"Holy crap, buddy! Where is my support!?"

JackeyLove suddenly saw his support disappear just like that; he could only turn around and cast {Icathian Rain} while immediately retreating.

Pyke chased him, using {Hail of Blades} to land three hits, and Caitlyn followed up with two shots. After taking away one-third of Kai'Sa's health, they decisively turned around and went to the lane.

The health Pyke lost from Icathian Rain could be recovered by more than half through his passive {Gift of the Drowned Ones}.

Most importantly, Kai'Sa now clearly had no choice but to take a detour to the lane.

She had to miss minions!

Because Nautilus was hooked to the top, Kai'Sa had to take a long detour from the river bush and return from behind the tower, inevitably missing the first three melee minions!

"Not bad, this guy," Deft said, quite surprised.

"This person placed a ward toward the top; I reckon if he saw the opponents didn't come from the river, he would also time it to go to the bush and throw a hook to annoy the AD," BeryL analyzed the opponent's further thoughts through the ward placement Pyke used.

When JackeyLove pinched his nose and circled out from under the tower, he had already missed the experience of the first three minions.

Pyke stood directly in front of the minion wave; the lone Nautilus, in order not to get hooked and lose health, could only watch as the minions fell.

Although Deft's Caitlyn wasn't as famous as his Corki, it was still one of his most proficient heroes, so he naturally wouldn't let go of the opportunity to be aggressive, crazily crossing the minion line to push forward, wanting to maximize the level one pressure.

But considering the jungler might come for a level two gank, he kept his positioning steady.

However, in fact, because the bottom lane lost experience and definitely couldn't reach level two first, the red side's random jungler decided not to take the risk after thinking it over.

"Just wait for level two; actually, if Nautilus is played well, he counters Pyke quite a bit," On, who had a good understanding of hook heroes, said in the stream room.

"Nautilus can Q the wall to use control to offset, and can help the AD take the hook."

The Titan’s Q ability, Dredge Line, is a two-part skill; as long as you take damage during the flight of the anchor in the first part, you can force a displacement of your position during the second part, completing a "Forced Displacement Control Cancellation."

It is precisely through this mechanism that, despite losing quite a bit in the bottom lane at level one, the Titan is not afraid of Pyke coming up for a hard hook, and Kai'Sa can still move close to the minion wave under the Titan's front-line protection.

The second minion wave clashes.

Approaching level two, the two red-side players, as professional bottom-lane position players, naturally would not give an opportunity for such a low-level mistake, stepping back in advance to open up distance.

But just at this moment, Ye Bo is frantically pinging signals for Caitlyn.

Signaling that he is going in!

Using the Steel Shoulderguards support item he had saved in advance to execute a melee minion.

The moment he hits level two, Pyke ctrl+e to instantly level up the E ability.

Then he immediately E’s across the minion wave, starting to charge up and raising his Bone Skewer high!

"Block it, block it, buddy!" JackeyLove shouts across the room.

Of course, because the two retreated in time, the distance had actually opened up a bit.

On is naturally prepared, stepping sideways to block in front of the AD, eyes locked on the Bone Skewer in Pyke’s hand, aiming at the wall and readying a block.

Yet, just as all his attention is focused on that hook.

He is completely unaware that the Phantom Undertow’s drowning phantom is already about to snap back to the main body—revealing the accompanying golden light just before the limit of the return!

The moment the phantom returns to the main body, Pyke flashes forward to overlap with the two.

Stunned them both!

Pyke then leisurely steps back, walks between the two, and thrusts the fully charged Bone Skewer into Kai'Sa’s backside, tossing her high back behind him!

"E-Q-E-Flash-Q"

Deft’s Caitlyn proficiency is on full display; coordinating with the timing and landing spot, he precisely predicts and places a Yordle Snap Trap at Kai'Sa’s landing point, then fires a Piltover Peacemaker.

Although there are minions in front, "Piltover Peacemaker always deals full damage to enemies hit by a trap."

As soon as Kai'Sa recovers from the stun, she is immediately rooted in place for another 1.5 seconds.

Pyke applies Ignite and lands three heavy strikes; at level one, Kai'Sa clearly has no hope of escape, and the kill is ultimately secured by Pyke as she burns to death from Ignite.

A first blood at 2 minutes is born!

"Is this play cool or what, brothers! If you think it's cool, type it in the chat!" After interacting across the room, Ye Bo also provides an explanation.

"This is a super classic Pyke ambush: E-Q charge, E-Flash, then Q. Basically, those who don't understand Pyke well find it hard to defend against, because opponents will be highly tense trying to guard against your hook, so they naturally ignore the chance to guard against your E-Flash!"

[Cool Cool Cool *n]

[Wait, buddy? Don't you play mid? Isn't it a bit excessive to lane-kill two professional players while playing bottom lane!]

[It's alright, I saw Ambition say that professional players who play support in this era do so because they can't make it in other positions; those who can make a name for themselves in mid, top, or jungle are the top geniuses!]

[I don't know about others, but don't you have any idea what level Oulul's Titan is? That game against Oulul, he was flashing to hook Anivia's wall every day; it gave me high blood pressure just watching.]

[Just a defeated opponent, brother. He even got lane-killed by a mid-laner playing support; I don't even want to imagine what would happen if he met the real EDG bottom lane!]

[I'm a Pyke player; honestly, this looks simple, but it's actually really difficult! Master Ye really has the proficiency.]

The return speed of Pyke’s E ability is constant; normally, it is very difficult to hit an E ability without the opponent being controlled.

One can only rely on E-Flash.

But the nuances of Pyke’s E-Flash are quite significant, and the hit rate is not guaranteed; it relies on the "limit" of one's grasp of "timing."

The more you can grasp the timing just before the phantom returns to the main body, flashing close to leap over, the harder it is to react to.

Flash too early, and it’s no different from not flashing at all.

Flash too late, and the phantom has already flown back to the main body.

The error rate is incredibly high; it can be said that it all depends on proficiency!

With the lane kill secured, Pyke and Caitlyn push the third minion wave into the tower and reach level three; Caitlyn chooses to recall.

But Pyke, after pulling back with his E ability in vision, does not choose to recall.

Instead, he sneaks off toward the mid lane!

"Holy crap, they actually got a lane kill in the bottom lane! Awesome, Master Ye!"

"Tsk, but Faker's Akshan laning is decent; this use of the poke-auto is quite proficient, feels like he's practiced it."

Chujun, who was just feeling distressed that he couldn't get any content for this game.

Suddenly sees the signal sent by Pyke.

"Alright, let's go!!"

5k, one more chapter to go.

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