Chapter 78: Canyon Nemesis! Rock-Attribute Taliyah! Fatal Flip

"Wow, this Taliyah is a shock trooper, isn't he!?" Zitao let out a dramatic, mournful wail: "This is so painful! If the bottom lane can stall for a bit longer, it’s hard to say what would happen once Xiaohu respawns and TPs in!"

"Actually, it feels tough; Lissandra has no Flash and no ultimate, so even if she TPs in, she might not be able to hold," Letme said, his face full of sorrow, watching the chat defend the jungler.

"Actually, you can't blame Xiaowei either; his jungle has been suppressed by Xin Zhao the whole time, and he’s been camping the bottom lane for a while, thinking the opponents would definitely have to leave if they wanted to take the Dragon!"

"The main thing is, I didn't expect Taliyah to be able to do that, to actually lift them up while under the tower! Can this hero really have so many tricks? Otherwise, with Gala holding onto both summoner spells, he definitely could have made a play!"

Letme was clearly trying to cover for his old teammate.

Because besides Taliyah's flashy play, it was obvious the most important factor was Lissandra getting caught in the jungle, which caused RNG to lose any possibility of taking the team fight, and Wei thinking he should quickly rotate to the top half to trade resources, which led to the bottom lane being left exposed and having its weakness exploited.

But immediately after, he saw the items Xiaohu bought upon respawning, and he clearly couldn't hold it together anymore.

"Ah, Xiaohu is going straight for Mercury's Treads? Uh, this..."

Zitao immediately said, half-mocking and half-supporting: "There's ac↑tually↓ no~ problem! Xiaohu's Mercury's Treads are definitely a high-level read! He builds Mercury's Treads even when playing against Faker; this is all just giving Ye Bo face!"

Theoretically, Mercury's Treads are indeed fine.

Don't look at the fact that the opponents don't have many hard crowd-control abilities; for a hero like Lissandra, just getting hit by one piece of CC in a team fight and failing to cast her ultimate can often be fatal.

Not to mention that the movement speed from Tier 2 boots can improve positioning and roaming ability, helping to dodge Taliyah's skills, and the magic resist can also improve survivability.

But everything has its pros and cons!

Spending 1,100 gold in the early game to buy a purely defensive item almost means giving up on the lane entirely.

It’s like pointing at your own buzz cut and telling the opponent—"Come on! Hit me here! If you make a sound, you're a goose!"

This directly led to Taliyah, who had returned to lane after buying a Lost Chapter, starting to dictate the tempo of the lane.

Relying on the fact that Lissandra had no ultimate and his own Cleanse had reset, he moved aggressively, weaving through the minion wave to fire Threaded Volleys from tricky angles.

Lissandra didn't dare to stand near the minion wave, otherwise, the AoE from Threaded Volley would push the lane and harass her at the same time, but she didn't dare to push back recklessly while constantly getting pelted by rocks, and as a result, she was down in CS.

From the spectator's perspective, she just looked extremely pathetic!

[Lissandra can't even buy a Lost Chapter first in lane? Deserves the name 'Coward Hu'!]

[You unscrupulous shopkeeper, you tried to scam me for room money by saying there was a tiger here! Where's the tiger? It's clearly just a kitten wearing a human skin!]

[Master Wu: "Eh? I thought I was fighting a tiger, how is it an immortal Tom Cat?"]

[Xiaohu got arrested too; now I say I am the king of LPL mid-lane laning, who agrees and who disagrees?]

[I disagree! Without a solo kill, you don't have my approval!]

[Damn, if a Lissandra with this build can still get solo killed, she might as well find a corner in the jungle, dig a hole, and bury herself!]

Xiaowei also wanted to come and guard Xiaohu, but because Lissandra had no ultimate, the gank success rate was too low, so he could only hide his presence for now.

But RNG naturally wouldn't just surrender, and they couldn't allow the mid lane to be broken through too quickly.

The reason is simple: as soon as the mid lane is broken, it will inevitably put more pressure on the side lanes, especially the crucial bottom lane!

RNG's tempo engine has never been just the mid and jungle, but the mid, jungle, and support; Ming's hard-engage support is also a key link.

The general distinction between hard-engage and enchanter supports is whether they possess strong initiation capabilities, and therefore, hard-engage supports are far superior to enchanters in active roaming and support.

RNG first baited Viego to the bottom lane, pretending to gank, but because Jiejie had been hovering in the bottom half of the map, the three of them just had a brief face-off, with neither side wanting to force a fight.

After all, Taliyah had no ultimate, and Lissandra still had TP.

And through this intimidation, RNG successfully cleared the minion wave, after which Leona disappeared.

"Master Ye, their bottom lane is missing." Viper had already gotten used to calling Ye Bo by this nickname.

"Should I follow to the mid lane to protect?" Meiko asked.

Ye Bo glanced at the Lissandra ultimate timer he had just recorded and felt there shouldn't be a threat.

Lissandra's level one ultimate is a whopping 120 seconds; she used it at five and a half minutes, and it hasn't even been seven minutes yet, so even if the opponent took {Ultimate Hunter}, it couldn't possibly be up.

It was also mainly because Nami isn't as stable as Leona in roaming; they only exert their maximum effect when paired with Lucian.

"No need, I can bait them a bit. Jiejie, you go bottom; if they really dare to come, take them out!"

"Understood!"

Under the OB camera, one could see the formations of both sides, but not their communication intentions.

Seeing Leona and Viego already at the top of the mid-lane river wall, while Taliyah still had no intention of retreating, the two commentators from Huya immediately started casting!

"Taliyah doesn't seem to have noticed..." Letme whispered, afraid of being heard: "The bottom lane must have given information!"

"Ye Bo's discipline is also insane!"

"Although Lissandra's ultimate isn't up yet, if Ming can land an engage in this position, there's still a chance!"

Taliyah's position wasn't actually that far forward; he was just standing in the middle of the minion wave.

Leona initiated from a distance, E-flashing through the wall, pointing out her Zenith Blade!

{Zenith Blade} is a projectile skill with a range of 875 units; combined with Flash, it can instantly target a distance of 1,300 units.

And the "blade" of the E is almost instantaneous!

But the problem is, the crowd control of Zenith Blade is a {Root}.

A root effect still allows the use of skills other than displacement abilities!

This allowed Taliyah to react easily while in the air, instantly casting {Unraveled Earth}, making Leona crash right into the minefield!

Not only that, with the minefield covering the ground, it simultaneously prevented Viego, who had walked out with her, from following up with a Flash-W.

Even more bizarrely, Taliyah's palms folded three times in an instant.

{Phase Rush} was successfully triggered using only two skills!

Relying on the movement speed from Phase Rush, Taliyah turned and walked downward, opening up distance from the Frozen Claw.

There is a mental game between Lissandra's E and Taliyah's W; if Lissandra just casts it to the end, she is easily "camped" by Taliyah at the destination, leading to being controlled upon landing.

With Xiaohu's proficiency, he naturally understood this, so as long as he could reach the distance, he would land early, emphasizing unpredictability.

But, Ye Bo relied on the little trick of "Taliyah EQ-hidden-A" to trigger Phase instantly, and that is exactly the purpose of carrying this rune!

It is to guard against this kind of play where an enemy teammate initiates to hold someone down, and Lissandra wants to follow up steadily with E.

At this moment, Taliyah's turning Seismic Shove was aimed exactly at the landing point of the Frozen Claw, and he released it!

He was about to pull laterally to a range of 450 units, already exceeding Lissandra's W and casting range, meaning if Lissandra didn't E now, she would already be out of range to follow up with skills.

It looked like a prediction, but it was all calculation!

Lissandra, as expected, had no choice but to move early.

And upon landing—she was flipped back!

Not only that, Viego, who was charging his W, saw this and suddenly, as if he had "misplayed" his positioning, took half a step back and walked right into it, getting flipped back along with her.

"Holy crap!? A prediction like that?" Letme's eyes widened.

From the OB perspective, this was Taliyah turning around and using a W to predict and flip both the mid and jungle, forcing the support to burn Flash for nothing, and even counter-attacking to take a huge chunk of the support's health!

He had neutralized this gank with such ease!

Conversely, the situation in the bottom lane took a sudden turn.

"Gala! Oh, Gala! What is Gala going to do!" Zitao noticed the predicament in the bottom lane.

Gala's instincts were sharp; before leaving, Ming had set up vision for him, and he had been positioning extremely far back, retreating as soon as Xin Zhao appeared.

If they could secure a kill in the mid lane, the ADC hanging out in front of the bottom tier-two tower would at most lose some minions and plating, and the jungle-support duo would rotate down immediately, which would definitely be acceptable.

But now... Gala was instantly stuck!

You guys didn't kill Taliyah, and the support's health was chunked by a full combo in return; even if you follow up now, you can't win a 3v3.

I can't farm the wave!

If the mid lane can't produce a result, this doesn't seem like just a matter of one or two waves anymore.

"Taliyah is still getting in their faces! He's even chasing back; he just won't let them go back safely. Gala looks like he has to AFK in the bottom lane and give up the first tower!" Zitao was getting a little flushed.

"Wait, wait, Xiaowei!"

Because neither Leona nor Lissandra had Flash to close the distance, and Viego's W skill had just been interrupted by himself, there was no way to hold him down.

Ye Bo counter-attacked aggressively, chasing three people with one!

He wanted to deal more damage, forcing Leona to be unable to return to the bottom lane, while simultaneously buying time for the bottom lane to take the first tower.

But Ye Bo made a small mistake, or rather, an "information gap."

After all, he isn't a jungler; he understands basic coordination and mechanics, but he couldn't possibly know every tiny detail about every hero.

For example—he didn't know that Viego's W skill, {Spectral Maw}, would have its cooldown reset to 3 seconds after being interrupted!

This was also why just now, Wei, seeing he couldn't pass through the minefield to land his W, had used his wits upon seeing the Seismic Shove marker light up behind him, stepping back to intentionally get flipped, getting interrupted to refresh the cooldown.

Viego was charging his W around the corner of the wall when he suddenly flashed in point-blank!

"Viego catches him! Taliyah uses Cleanse to instantly break it, but Lissandra immediately follows up with the Q slow, then follows with control at the limit of her W range—Xiaohu's distance control!"

"Leona applies Ignite but can't reach him; Taliyah flashes backward, but Viego can still follow with his ultimate!"

"Counter-attacking and burning both summoner spells! Can they kill him!!"

"Oh my! Just a little bit... how can there be so little damage!"

Taliyah turned around at sliver health, firing a giant rock from {Taliyah's Wall} to slow the Viego chasing with his ultimate, using the {Celerity} triggered by his summoner spells to force distance.

Finally, at the limit, with double-digit health, he walked back under the tower on foot.

Zitao's already flushed face heated up even more when he saw the screen full of {Mercury's Treads}.

Looking at the result, if Lissandra hadn't had Mercury's Treads, even a Lost Chapter would have been enough to secure the kill!

This really couldn't be defended.

"Must retreat, must retreat! Their three mid-laners are all going down; we can't take the first tower this time!" After giving the command, Ye Bo felt a bit apologetic: "I don't know why Viego's W was so fast; I shouldn't have chased..."

"Because Viego's W cooldown is shortened when interrupted," Jiejie, the Viego king, explained, then joked: "This one's on me, mostly because I didn't tell you!"

"Doesn't matter, our bottom lane is making a fortune!"

"Gala is about to cry~"

Although they did not achieve their primary goal, as long as Taliyah did not die, EDG clearly still profited.

The bottom lane had three plates and three waves of minions stripped away by three people, and while the mid lane burned both summoner spells, the opponent also burned two Flashes, so they did not lose out on abilities at all.

It was just that Taliyah herself lost a little, being forced to recall for free, and because she burned both summoner spells, she could only play defensively for a while.

Looking at RNG’s Zeri, she was truly on the verge of tears.

"It’s fine, Taliyah has no summoner spells, I have my ultimate and Flash for the Rift Herald fight, if I engage well we can definitely win!" Xiaohu quickly covered up the awkwardness and commanded.

"Yeah, it’s actually okay, Taliyah also lost a bit, let’s give Gala some economy in the mid-game, take the Rift Herald and crash it into the mid lane first." Ming also spoke up to comfort him.

As long as the angle was tricky enough, RNG could indeed find a point to "profit" from in this wave.

That is, the Rift Herald fight in forty seconds!

The fattest members of EDG currently were in the bottom lane, but as everyone knows, the power spike for an ADC is hard to make decisive at the 8-minute Rift Herald fight; it mainly depends on the top, mid, and jungle.

Both teams' top laners were scaling cores, and with Taliyah having no summoner spells, she would be hard-pressed to withstand the double hard-engage of Leona and Lissandra in the next fight.

RNG considered themselves to have at least a 60-40 advantage, if not a guaranteed win!

"Huh? The enemy bottom lane doesn't seem to be going..." Gala said in a muffled voice.

As it turned out, Lucian and Nami had actually reappeared in the bottom lane.

It was now 7:30.

If a bottom lane duo wanted to contest the Rift Herald, they usually had to recall and set off at least 30 seconds early; this looked like they had no intention of missing minion waves to join the fight at all.

"Their bottom lane is so greedy!?"

"Then Ming, don't come either, go straight to the bottom lane to protect Gala, we can fight with our top, mid, and jungle!"

RNG made a decisive move.

Originally, the opponent's fattest members were the bottom lane duo, and if they weren't coming, wouldn't this Rift Herald fight be even easier to win?

Thirty seconds later, the Rift Herald spawned.

"Kayle and Taliyah have both moved over, be careful of being knocked up by Taliyah, we can engage directly!"

Viego was tanking the Rift Herald without much pressure, and Lissandra stood inside the dragon pit, ready and waiting to find an opportunity to engage.

3v3, as long as he could engage on Taliyah who had no Cleanse, even with the protection of Kayle's level one ultimate, they could easily win this team fight.

The facts seemed to be exactly that; Taliyah and Kayle only came over to place a Control Ward and clear vision, not daring to get too close.

Wei had been searching for Zhao Xin’s figure, guarding against the chance of a Smite fight.

However, Zhao Xin, who had appeared in the mid lane with Taliyah just over ten seconds ago, was nowhere to be seen.

"That's not right, where is Zhao Xin!?"

The Rift Herald’s health was already below half, yet Zhao Xin still hadn't shown up, and RNG finally realized something was wrong.

And the Demacia Steward had already emerged from behind the bottom lane!

Under normal circumstances, a duo lane cannot reach level six at 8 minutes; one person needs to solo a wave of minions.

So, even if both bottom lanes had rushed over, they would both be level five at the 8-minute mark.

But don't forget what kind of growth EDG's bottom lane had this game!

Two tower dives, the experience from two kills, plus the minion waves at just past eight minutes, were enough to complete a double level six!

Looking at RNG's bottom lane, due to the early game distress, Zeri had even missed minion waves, so it was naturally impossible for anyone to reach level six.

A 3-man dive on 2 would be very dangerous.

But if it were 3 level-sixes diving 2 level-fives!

It was definitely a dive with eyes closed!

"TP! TP! Breathe, you TP to save him!" The RNG members understood completely.

But there were still two people lurking near the dragon pit; RNG could only TP one person down to save them, which obviously had to be Gangplank, whose combat power at the Rift Herald was less important.

Gangplank understood and turned to channel TP under the bottom lane tower.

"He TP'd, he TP'd!"

"Scout, help me find him!"

Kayle accepted the order and risked her life to peek out from the river entrance, spotting Gangplank’s TP silhouette in the middle of the river from afar.

RNG didn't take it seriously at first; Lissandra remained focused on Taliyah's position.

After all, Kayle had no interrupt abilities.

The next moment, the familiar sound of earth-shaking rumbled through the Rift again.

"Ah, Taliyah! Taliyah! Did Taliyah come too!?"

Gala, under the tower, recalled the scene of being rushed just moments ago and shouted in shock.

But immediately after, he saw the purple light pillar representing the TP beside him suddenly disappear.

"Damn!!! My TP was interrupted!"

"Hu, can you stop, stop, stop TPing."

Taliyah’s long-range Weaver's Wall, using the vision provided by Kayle, interrupted the TP from thousands of miles away.

And the bottom lane had already made their move, quickly sending back news of victory.

"Gala! How miserable, Gala!" Zitao made an exaggerated facial expression.

"What kind of operations are these from EDG? Could this all be commanded by Ye Bo? This guy is purely uncanny!"

Letme analyzed through gritted teeth: "EDG knew their Rift Herald fight was hard to win! So they simply made a tactical swap, choosing to give up the Rift Herald and turn to dive the bottom lane instead!"

"What a cunning tactical shift!"

Because both teams' mid and top towers were at full health, even if they took the Rift Herald, they would still have to use it to push the bottom tier-one tower anyway.

Ye Bo was the one who thought of this, which is why he commanded the shift.

Since that's the case, I'll just use the Rift Herald to trade with you!

Avoiding the disadvantage of their own Rift Herald fight while achieving the same effect.

And they could even use the level difference to slaughter your bottom lane core once more!

"Fine, let's just say they traded 0 for 2 and grabbed a Rift Herald, not a loss!" Zitao started creating show effects.

"Is that for real, you sneaky Zitao? This isn't a loss? RNG never loses, right!" Letme clearly wasn't "cringe" enough and didn't keep up with the rhythm at first.

"Next wave, let Zeri solo a wave of plates, the economy will be made up, just wait for Gala's three-item spike!" Zitao shook his head.

RNG could indeed only do that.

With two cores on the team, there was no reason for Lissandra to take too many resources.

If it were the RNG of spring, they might consider funneling resources to the top laner.

Because the top laner in spring, Bin, although he had issues with disciplined aggression, was guaranteed in both laning and mid-to-late game carry potential.

But Breathe, who replaced him in the summer split...

Laning was still fine, but this game he was counter-picked by Scout and couldn't make a splash.

However, once this person reached team fights and the mid-game, he was often unpredictable!

And his champion pool was almost the same as Bin's; neither of them could play tanks!

Simply put, you can pick a carry for him, but it's best not to let him be the sole big carry, otherwise, it's extremely easy to flip the car.

By comparison, they could naturally only trust Gala.

After Zeri revived, she didn't go to the mid lane but to the top lane, and Breathe's Gangplank went to the bottom lane.

This was easy to understand; although the normal situation was a mid-bottom lane swap, if he went to the mid lane against Lucian and Nami, he would still be heavily pressured, let alone using the Rift Herald to take resources.

But EDG chose to swap Taliyah to the top lane as well, letting Kayle go to the bottom lane to continue suppressing Gangplank.

"Why did Taliyah swap to the top lane too?" Viego, guarding on the side, spoke up: "Zhao Xin is there too, don't fight."

"Forget it, just drop it, Taliyah can't W me." Gala said very confidently.

Leona stepped half a step back to be careful, preventing herself from being too close and sharing the plate gold, letting Zeri eat as many plates as possible.

And Taliyah, under the tower, was casting Threaded Volley at the air.

Viego summoned the Rift Herald inside the tower from over the wall, ensuring the Rift Herald could crash safely.

But.

Just as the Rift Herald was born.

Taliyah immediately fired a Threaded Volley Q—stunning the Rift Herald for a full 3 seconds!

Taliyah then cast EW to pull it back under the tower, stunning the Rift Herald for another 2 seconds!

With the eye on the Rift Herald's back opened, Zhao Xin stepped up with an auto-attack plus Smite.

He actually killed the full-health Rift Herald instantly!

"What the???" Gala, who was waiting for gold in front of the tower, watched all of this happen.

"How can it be like this!!!"

Wei, behind him, was also full of shock.

As an "Epic Monster," the Rift Herald normally does not take any crowd control.

And after Taliyah's rework, although she was defaulted to be more suitable for the mid lane due to a significant damage reduction, the designers didn't completely cut off the hope for the jungle, adding a feature to Threaded Volley Q that can stun "Regular Monsters" for a full 3 seconds.

But why could it stun the Rift Herald?

Because the Rift Herald summoned by the Eye of the Herald is counted as a "Regular Monster" mechanic before it performs its "Charge" action!

Before Taliyah's rework in June, there weren't many skills in League of Legends specifically for "stunning monsters," so even if people knew about this mechanic, there was no point in utilizing it.

But Taliyah could.

And, it was still only Taliyah, this one hero, who could do it!

Truly—the Rift Herald's nemesis!

This is actually also why Ye Bo decided to swap the Rift Herald without hesitation.

He might indeed not know every hero well enough yet.

But, relying on a sufficient number of games played, he knows all the mechanics of this game well enough!

"I!! Damn!!" Zitai could no longer hold it together: "No way, how is this even playable!"

"Hey, RNG can actually endure this? Can they just charge into the tower, finish off this Taliyah, and explode with her!"

"Just click on her once, is that so hard! I'll give you the points!"

Letme looked at the ashen-faced Gala on the camera, feeling heartbroken: "Save Gala, I feel like he's about to shatter."

Along with the Rift Herald, even the damage-mitigation effect failed to materialize.

The result of the previous wave turned into the bottom lane being dived for no reason again, losing all turret plating, plus the first turret gold!

And the super-fed Lucian and Nami were pure pressure, as if dreaming back to Season 11; seeing both junglers appear in the top lane, they suppressed the Lissandra in the mid lane so hard she couldn't even take care of herself.

Lucian stepped forward with a slide, E-auto-auto, Q-auto-auto, W-auto-auto, triggering Nami’s Electrocute and double passives from a distance.

It was nearly enough to one-shot the full-health Lissandra!

Lissandra was forced to recall for free, the mid lane's vicious cycle of losing plating continued rapidly, and the gold gap was blown wide open.

This game, EDG was playing "Aggressive Offense" and "Aggressive Farming" for the bottom lane.

Striking at your vital point.

While simultaneously nurturing the tactical core of the aggressive lineup!

The Lucian-Nami combo finished their respective Mythic items at 9 minutes, took the dragon at 10 minutes in invincible fashion, and then finished off the plating on all three lanes before 14 minutes.

With Xin Zhao acting as a bodyguard, Taliyah ready to support at any time, and a Kayle ultimate for the upcoming team fight.

As long as Lucian is a normal human being, they wouldn't even know how to lose!

"Blaze! Don't! Don't provoke him!"

"Oh my! Why does Gangplank want to duel Taliyah? Once that Phase Rush triggers, he can outplay Gangplank into a daze!"

"I feel like this Taliyah still needs to be banned; at the very least, Ye Wen’s Taliyah definitely must be banned!" Letme shook his head, already starting to think about the draft for the next game for RNG: "His Taliyah roaming rhythm is mastered too well, and he always has these cheeky roams! It just feels like, it really is a roam that can only be done by taking Taliyah!"

Zitai, however, noticed a strange point: "I just want to know if those calls were actually made by Ye Wen; this person is really not right!"

"Hey, wait a second... Xiaohu! Is he going for Taliyah!"

RNG knew that Lucian and Nami had double bodyguards and had no chance at all.

They could only find a way to deal with the split-pushing Taliyah.

Taliyah solo-killed Gangplank, then saw her side pushing in the top lane.

Because Taliyah didn't bring Teleport this game, and the ultimate's range was only half the map, if he went bottom, he wouldn't be able to reach the top lane battlefield in time.

Seeing the three opponents from the mid and bottom lanes all present, a Viego clearly wasn't qualified to challenge him to a duel.

Ye Bo didn't think much of it, so he chose the shortest path through the jungle to head to the mid lane.

It’s just that he didn't expect the "hatred" the opponents held for him!

"Fatty, don't leave, I'm TPing! Just go for Taliyah! He also has a big shutdown bounty!"

Xiaohu had a sudden inspiration.

Of course, no one knew if he just wanted to kill Taliyah once.

Being constantly outplayed and manipulated by his opponent this game, with the constant tempo changes feeling like being toyed with, he felt incredibly stifled!

Isn't it just tempo design?

Who can't do that!

Lissandra, who was originally facing off in front of the top lane tier-two turret, suddenly stepped back and used Teleport to her own bottom tier-two turret.

The vision in the tri-bush had already spotted Taliyah, and at the same time, Viego, who had intended to support, also turned around.

The two prepared to stage an ambush!

This was indeed impossible to predict; after all, thinking from a normal perspective, why would Lissandra, who was nervously guarding against a tower dive a second ago, suddenly have the whim to TP over to catch someone?

Even if they really caught her, since the mid laner used TP to get there, it would at least cost them the top lane high ground; it wouldn't be worth it at all!

This had nothing to do with discipline; it was purely a wild imagination.

"Got you!" Letme shouted with inexplicable passion: "Taliyah is dead for sure this time!"

"General Hu's strategy! If he can't kill her this time, I'll eat three pounds of it while doing a handstand!" Zitai used an even louder voice to drown out the volume.

Taliyah had already walked to the Blast Cone outside the Red Buff pit, and had been very cautious, preparing to blast toward the upper main path, no longer continuing deep into the jungle.

Lissandra had already arrived at the wall, and Viego had also just stepped into the Red Buff bush, spotting Taliyah's location.

The two of them naturally saw the intention.

"Go!!"

Glacial Path popped out from over the wall.

And the charging Heartbreaker, shockingly, flashed to grab!

Taliyah was instantly stunned by the two skills flying out from the darkness, followed immediately by the Glacial Path flying into her face, and the landing of the Ring of Frost and Frozen Tomb.

Not afraid of overlapping crowd control at all.

Just to instantly deal maximum damage!

Taliyah's health dropped rapidly in an instant, looking like it was about to reach the threshold for a Heartbreaker execution.

To anyone watching, this was a desperate situation with no way out.

Even if Taliyah used Cleanse to instantly remove the CC, the delay on E-W meant she couldn't save her own life; at most, she would be chased down and executed in less than a second.

Viego also held both summoner spells and could completely force an R-Flash second-stage chase to pursue.

It seemed that Taliyah just giving up and saving her skills, trading her life for a top lane high ground, was the best way to handle it.

However, in so-called desperate situations, there is always a glimmer of hope for a play.

In this split second of assessing the situation, Ye Bo’s thoughts flashed, and he discovered a key singularity.

This was the flaw!

Lissandra's damage had a delay; Q-W into R had a short casting animation, taking about less than a second to complete the whole sequence.

At this moment, the three were almost completely pressed together.

Taliyah still instantly used [Cleanse], immediately removing all crowd control effects on her body.

And within the 0.80 seconds of using Cleanse, Taliyah slightly raised her hand, waving her palm lightly behind her.

The reason it was 0.80 seconds is because 0.80 is Taliyah's "Attack Speed."

And at the exact same moment a plain stone was fired, a golden light flashed at Taliyah's feet, and her figure suddenly dodged to the side!

A-Flash!

To be precise, it was using A-Flash to change her position at the moment of detonating the Blast Cone, making herself unaffected by the knock-up.

Because only in this way could she cast [Unraveled Earth] in the air before the enemy landed, embedding the Unraveled Earth completely into the wall!

Only two figures were thrown high into the air.

Viego and Lissandra were knocked back over the wall into the Krug pit — and in mid-air, they violently collided with the terrifying rock wall thrown from the side!

Blood splattered in the air!

And then the ground under their feet cracked, and the Seismic Shove erupted like a sharp sword, flipping the two of them sideways over the corner wall!

The two tumbled twice within the wall, almost taking the full damage of the entire Unraveled Earth.

Immediately following was another incoming Threaded Volley.

The two were still stunned and had nowhere to hide, effectively taking all of Taliyah's skills instantly!

"Cleanse-A-Flash-E-Q-W-Q"

By utilizing the skill mechanic where {Taliyah's Q-W-E-R skills can all be pressed simultaneously}, it was almost an instant 6-key combo effect pressed within 1 second!

The sound of a double kill now echoed across Summoner's Rift.

The two in the secondary broadcast room stared at the scene before them, dumbfounded.

"I!!! Damn!!!"

"What the hell is going on???" Zitai leaned toward the screen, looking somewhat delirious as he followed up with another: "Ah?"

"She can even counter-kill like this!?" After Letme shouted, he didn't forget the other person's earlier yell.

"Liu Zhihao! I'm going to prepare the goods for you now, but I don't have much to eat tonight, probably not three pounds, lucky you!"

[Wow!!! Damn!!!]

[A performance of "One Hundred Ways to Trigger Unraveled Earth"? How can the same blue-collar hero be played like a mechanical monster by him? This Lissandra looks like a piece of zombie meat frozen for three hundred years!]

[The Shuriman hero, the tiger-slaying hero!]

[Case solved, Zitai is actually a Calabash Brother, intentionally trying to scam a meal!]

[A slide, passing under the Tiger Vanguard and instantly filling him up!]

[Master Ye keeps his word, he never lies to me.]

The EDG voice chat was filled with endless streams of "national essence" (profanity); they happened to switch screens the moment the change appeared on the mini-map, and finally saw the instant of the A-Flash.

"Holy crap, she can counter-kill like this!?" Meiko expressed shock no less than their opponents.

"Awesome!" Viper was concise.

"As expected of the Rock-type Akali, truly fierce!" Saint-Gun Brother quoted the netizens' vivid description.

"This is our EDG's Akali-Taliyah, do other teams have such an Akali-Taliyah? I really don't understand why they would let my Master Ye have Taliyah!" Jiejie exaggeratedly made a sound of complex composition.

After finishing the play, Ye Bo just calmed his heavy breathing caused by the adrenaline surge, and paused before joking with his teammates.

"Jiejie, show off less, your taste is a bit heavy!"

"Push, push, push! We can break two lanes directly!"

With the key mid-laner and jungler of RNG fallen, the top-laner discovered they were outnumbered and immediately pushed straight to the high ground, then turned to join Taliyah in razing the mid-lane high ground.

In less than 20 minutes, two lanes of high ground had already been broken!

With Angel as a late-game insurance policy and a guarantee against being engaged on in team fights, there was not even a chance for Lissandra to pull off a perfect team-fight engage.

Everyone already knew the outcome of this match.

EDG held a 10k gold lead, yet they still played steadily, securing the Dragon Soul and Baron at 22 minutes before regrouping to press directly onto all three lanes of high ground.

Taliyah forced a path block from a diagonal angle, stubbornly keeping all five of them behind the nexus turrets!

Lucian and Angel pressed up directly to destroy the towers, and the five members of RNG could only stand there foolishly watching the nexus turrets fall.

Seeing the stone wall descend, the five members of RNG dared not step out without the protection of the nexus turrets.

In the end, they could only watch as the crystal was tapped by a single stone, exploding into a sky full of shattered colors!

The operations have been recreated in the chapter comments.

9k+ words; as I said in yesterday's single chapter, everything for the rest of this month counts as paying off debts~

I feel like after resting for a day, my state has adjusted back; thanks for the brothers' understanding and concern~~~

PS: I tried posting the operation images in portrait mode; let me know if it's more comfortable to view. If it works, I'll post in portrait mode from now on (theoretically, it should be more comfortable to view on mobile).

Shamelessly asking for monthly tickets, qaq!

Thanks to the big boss Asite 1000 for the 500 coin tip!

Thanks to the brothers for the monthly tickets!

Thanks to the brothers for the concern and support!

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