Chapter 96: The Miraculous Flash-Strike Crossing Four Walls!

In the replay.

While the top lane was making a move, Sylas—who had been playing steadily and holding back to guard against the Monkey King’s ambush—clearly also developed a killing intent.

Just like the reason Kennen would get caught, as long as you are pressuring the opponent, it is impossible to be in a safe position; with the minion wave like this, it was impossible for Scout to just shrink under the tower and not come out the moment the jungler was absent.

Amumu, who was clearing wards below, had already been detected; even if he flashed out, he definitely wouldn't be able to land his Q, and even if he really forced it, Zoe could just use an Ignite and W speed boost to walk away.

Scout stayed close to the upper minion wave to guard against Amumu.

However, precisely because of this, Zoe did not stay glued to the minion wave, giving Sylas the space to cast his E.

Sylas moved instantly, his first E dash crossing the minion wave to move forward!

Scout did not rush to cast Sleepy Trouble Bubble—casting E early is equivalent to giving the opponent a chance to flash and dodge it, while also risking a miss.

Sylas threw out his second chain; Zoe reacted in time, throwing her bubble while in mid-air!

The Sleepy Trouble Bubble hit before landing.

But the moment he landed, Sylas began to whip.

"EE landing auto-attack W auto-attack R auto-attack"

Through the automatic follow-up attack from the E2 landing, followed by W to reset the basic attack, then R to reset the basic attack, and finally QA, every passive basic attack was almost perfectly synchronized with the skills; one could only see the shadow of the whip, not the casting animations of the skills.

The 2-second drowsy wind-up of the Sleepy Trouble Bubble hadn't even finished before everything was already unleashed!

Perfectly utilizing three skill-based basic attack resets, a total of 791 damage exploded in less than 2 seconds!

"Holy crap, what kind of damage is this Sylas doing!" Uzi, watching the replay, was completely stunned.

"It's not like I haven't played this thing, how is his Sylas damage so high?"

Sylas only had an Amplifying Tome on him at that moment.

Zoe, who had just over 1000 HP at level six, actually had her health bar emptied instantly!

Scout knew that the champion Sylas had high damage.

But he really didn't expect it to be this high!

This was thanks to that fluid whipping execution; it looked routine, but in reality, to finish it within the 2 seconds of drowsiness, there were quite a lot of difficulties and details.

Every missed passive attack meant 100 less direct damage and 2 stacks of Conqueror lost; Ye Bo had practiced against training dummies for a long time to develop that muscle memory.

Scout was shocked into burning Ignite for the speed boost, and his retreating Q was also deliberately delayed to ensure he took the full duration of the sleep.

However, Zoe’s fully charged Paddle Star also dealt over 600+ damage.

This shows that both are actually "one-shot" heroes; it’s just that Sylas landed all his skills, had the extra book, and thus his damage was slightly higher.

But up to this point.

Still, no one could guess how Zoe died.

Because in the replay, Zoe didn't try to greed for minions; she was extremely steady, walking straight into the depths of the defensive tower before preparing to recall, not giving a single chance.

Scout knew Sylas still had Flash, so he just wanted to recall safely this time.

But seeing Sylas abandon the tower wave, Scout felt danger approaching, and then saw Amumu appear behind him.

Zoe immediately canceled the recall and retreated.

Although in poor condition, Zoe still had 300+ HP; if Amumu could land a Q while having Ignite, there might barely be a chance for a trade.

It’s just that Amumu, like Sylas, would inevitably be face-to-face under the tower to take an E if he used his Q; the best case would be a 1-for-1 trade.

If Zoe managed to dodge the Q, there was even a possibility of a counter-kill!

And Sylas hadn't even crossed the river at that point; Zoe’s position was extremely far back, and the distance between them was far more than 3000 yards.

Even in the replay, one couldn't see any threat at all, let alone Scout at the time.

Zoe was moving away from Amumu while escaping toward the second tower, eyes only on the old teammate who wanted to dive her, still thinking about how to outplay him.

Just at this moment.

The Sylas locked by the observer camera arrived at the river wall.

E1 brushed past the river wall, and a portal entrance suddenly appeared under his feet.

Sylas transformed into Zoe’s figure, using Portal Jump to dash over the F6 pit wall while simultaneously flashing across the pit wall!

With golden light accompanying him, he landed from the corner of the wall, and without vision, aimed his E2 chain at Zoe, charging across the fourth wall!

Crossing a full four walls!!!

From the mid-lane river entrance, he covered over 3500 yards of displacement in 1 second—instantly traveling to the front of the mid-lane second tower!

The EW combo was unleashed simultaneously in mid-air.

The damage was perfectly supplemented by the bonus damage from Last Stand, which was maxed out because his health had been lowered by the earlier Paddle Star!

In an instant, he used Portal Jump again to blink back to his original spot.

A distance exceeding a full screen.

A true flash-strike crossing four walls—"Portal Raid"!

"Holy crap!!!" Uzi widened his eyes: "What the hell is that!?"

The official stream was in chaos; all three official casters were stunned.

"No, what just happened!!!" Guan Zeyuan looked at everything in front of him in disbelief: "LeBlanc-las!?"

"This... this is too exaggerated... too cool!" Rita was so surprised she stuttered.

"A miraculous kill! This is definitely a legendary moment in the history of the tournament! A legendary moment belonging to Sylas!" Wang Duo was extremely excited: "Even the student is confused! Completely confused!"

"Simply exquisite to the extreme, a master-level solo kill!"

"In the truest sense, a solo kill where he didn't even know how he died!"

The director thoughtfully played a segment of Scout’s "Victim Perspective."

From that perspective, it only appeared more bizarre and terrifying.

From Zoe’s perspective, she only saw Sylas disappear from the mid-lane, clearly thousands of miles away.

Yet, almost immediately, a terrifying chain flew out from the shadow behind her for no reason!

[That is just ridiculous!!!]

[666666 I'm stunned, seriously. I feel like I couldn't even recreate this in the training camp. You can't blame Scout for this, how are you supposed to deal with such a forced kill!]

[The way of the man, kid!]

[Master Ye, you are my god!!!]

[Holy crap, the God of Thieves is here, using your own skills, and using them better than you!]

[Grandpa: What thief? No one understands Zoe better than me!]

Scout didn't have the god's-eye view; at this moment, he really couldn't figure out how he died.

Because they were truly too far apart; Sylas’s figure never appeared from start to finish.

Even with Zoe’s R as a reference answer right in front of his face, it was still hard to understand how he came over like that.

This play actually utilized Zoe’s R "wall-clipping displacement" + "Flash wall-clipping displacement" simultaneously.

Just these two unconventional "extra displacement distances" already added at least 500 yards, plus the instant landing, aiming, and E-casting after the flash, with the W cast in mid-air.

BLG’s four teammates were questioning how he died in the mid-lane.

But Scout stammered for a long time and still couldn't explain it clearly; it felt like whatever he said sounded like his own mistake.

But he really didn't make a mistake this time!

If he didn't pull to the left, he would have been hit by Amumu’s point-blank Q, and he would have been traded anyway.

Meanwhile, in the EDG voice chat, it was already filled with excited voices.

The shy Meiko, as the only insider who witnessed everything, was a bit hyper-excited as he explained it to his teammates.

"That was too sick, Ye Bo! I was already prepared to force a trade with him, how could he get killed like that!"

"Hey, you guys didn't see it, this play was a bit perverted!"

Ye Bo, with a flushed face, picked up his water cup and took a sip: "I just wanted to try it, luckily I didn't mess up, hehe."

This play was originally Ye Bo commanding Amumu to come over and attempt a 1-for-1 trade.

Zoe didn't have Teleport; if the support could get a 1-for-1, it was definitely a very profitable deal.

But just after arriving at that position, Ye Bo saw Zoe’s location, and a thought suddenly popped into his head.

Then, he did it.

Actually, he still had a small mistake, which was that when he landed from the Portal Jump and tried to chain the Flash, his limit reaction was a bit slow and he paused for a moment.

It was that moment that caused the combo—which was supposed to be "land, auto-attack, then W"—to become a messy, rushed simple EW.

Because of one less auto-attack, it went from a guaranteed kill to a kill with almost exactly enough damage.

And it just so happened that this patch nerfed the recovery amount of "potions," and that difference of a few dozen HP created this miraculous kill!

"It's good that the mid-lane got it back; sigh, I still gave them an opening this time." Saintgun Brother felt both relieved and self-reproachful.

"It's fine, I'll help you defend the plating; it's just one kill, it's very dry!" Jiejie comforted him: "Besides, they burned three Flashes this time, the Rift Herald fight will be easy to play later!"

Kennen, who was pushing the wave, was very slow to get the minions into the tower, and with Zhao Xin helping to block, it was actually just losing the gold of one kill.

But at this moment, Ye Bo, who had calmed down, suddenly interrupted Jiejie.

He had another idea.

"Jie, come here, come here, come here..."

Jiejie, who was farming the jungle, didn't ask any questions and stopped what he was doing to rush toward Sylas’s direction.

The observer camera discovered their intentions.

"What are you doing! What on earth are you doing, Ye Wen!" Uzi made a mournful expression.

"Stu~dent~!"

After Zoe respawned and left the base, he bought Boots of Speed, then quickly left the base with the 50% movement speed boost from the {Homeguard} gained upon respawning.

However, the direction it was facing did not seem to be the main path.

Scout had likely reconstructed the possible maneuvers, and no matter how the opponent operated, they would definitely have needed to use Flash to complete it.

Then—there must be a Flash on the ground in the jungle!

The skill shard retained by [Spell Thief] lasts for 40 seconds; Zoe died almost at the same time it dropped, and with a 12-second respawn time at level 6, plus the movement speed boost upon leaving the fountain and being in her own jungle, she could definitely make it back in time.

In the first half of the previous exchange, the damage from Sylas’s full combo alone was a bit frightening.

He knew clearly that the laning situation had now reversed.

Relying on his item advantage, as long as Sylas mindlessly E-W’d into his face, he definitely wouldn’t win the trade!

Therefore, picking up this Flash became crucial; perhaps it was even possible to coordinate a play with the jungler using this Flash to secure a kill on the opponent.

But just as Scout arrived at the entrance to the wall outside his own F6 camp,

A chain, like a nightmare, flew out from the brush once again.

Accompanying it this time was a long spear.

"Ah!!! Xiba!"

Before dying, Zoe used her R to force her way into the brush and indeed saw the location where the Flash dropped, but it was in the very corner, and she couldn't pick it up.

Pulled back by Portal Jump, Zoe was met with another round of whipping.

"Ye Bo! It’s him again!"

"It’s blown up, the mid lane is blown up again, this is unplayable, brothers!"

Uzi’s tone was filled with heartbreak, but the corners of his mouth seemed unable to stop from curling up.

"Completely seen through, junior~ The opponent understands Zoe too well; they knew you wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to come and pick it up!"

"Another chain of offensives from Ye Bo, letting EDG seize control of the situation!"

Uzi off-stage was still relatively restrained, merely projecting himself into the memory.

But the BLG members on stage truly couldn't hold it together.

How did he die again!

What are they doing?

They still didn't see why this time, only seeing Zoe die in a very strange and inexplicable position.

If it weren't for everyone knowing a bit about the history between EDG and Scout, they would probably really start to suspect: is this guy actually throwing the game on purpose?

It’s always like this whenever they play EDG!

The BLG members' original plan was simple: seize the brief window of Kainan’s 2-minute ultimate cooldown and start the Rift Herald directly.

Although Fiora isn't strong in team fights, with neither having their ultimate, Fiora’s melee ability is clearly superior to Kainan’s, and this was their chance to regain the tempo.

But a major incident happened in the mid lane again!

"I feel like we have to take this fight; if we don't, we won't be able to fight at all once Kainan and Amumu hit level six," Liu Qingsong expressed his opinion.

"Can't take it." A depressed Scout didn't want to explain much.

"Seems like we have to take it," Weiwei held the same view.

"I said we can't take it! Look at how fed this Sylas is; just drag it out, don't die, and wait for Fiora to split push later!"

Scout’s tone was overly righteous, almost making everyone think that this Sylas was raised by them.

But then again, this fight was a desperate one to begin with.

BLG was only banking on Kainan not having his ultimate; if they lost these next few team fights, they might as well prepare to surrender.

And so—BLG entered turtle mode.

Contest the dragon? They gave the dragon.

Contest the Herald? They gave the Herald.

Invade the jungle? They gave the jungle.

During the laning phase, Zoe no longer dared to approach the minion wave; the situation had completely reversed, and Sylas could beat Zoe half to death with a mid-lane E combo, naturally leaving her with no lane priority.

After pushing the wave, Sylas went with the jungler to take the Herald and push the bottom lane, and then they gave up the bottom lane too.

Very stable, a very thick turtle shell, very hard to score kills on.

It’s just that it’s useless.

[What is BLG doing? Why not just give them the base too? What’s the point of the base!]

[To be honest, if you cover the team names, this is exactly the EDG footage from this year's Spring Split! No advantage in the early game and they start turtling, exactly the same!]

[Case solved, whoever is there, they turtle!]

[It’s already over; after that chain-kill sequence in the mid lane, the jungle is unplayable too. With Sylas covering him, Zhao Xin is walking around like it’s his own home! One mid-laner collapsed the whole jungle!]

[Look at the master, dominating the jungle and mid!]

It wasn't that Scout didn't want to do anything.

It was just that to do something, he had to contest the wave, and to contest the wave, he had to play against Sylas, and playing against Sylas meant the possibility of being solo-killed.

But in reality, the laning gap between Zoe and Sylas shouldn't be this large.

It was entirely down to the player's personal choices.

If Ye Bo were the Zoe right now, he would definitely continue to outplay the opponent.

Anyway, the current laning situation followed a simple logic: if Sylas hits his E, Zoe might die; if Sylas misses his E, he gets hit for half his health by Zoe, and then there’s a chance for a solo kill on the second rotation.

Zoe actually only needed to win one more trade than the opponent, and she still held Ignite; it wasn't a hopeless situation.

But Scout didn't dare.

Or rather, he was too afraid of being solo-killed again; this was something he couldn't accept.

Even if it meant making it very difficult for himself to participate in making plays.

And because BLG was too afraid to team fight against this lineup and kept avoiding the enemy mid-jungle duo, they could only head to the top lane.

Unfortunately, Shengqiang Ge was good at absorbing pressure; he would never step into the same pit twice.

Seeing his team gain an advantage in the bottom half of the map while the enemy mid-jungle didn't show, he retreated without a word and ran to the "autistic brush" in front of the top tier-two tower to take refuge.

BLG had no choice but to let Fiora take some plating to prepare for split pushing.

Although the kill count didn't increase much.

EDG was rampaging across the map, and the speed at which the gold lead widened was not slow at all!

Sylas returned from the bottom lane, carrying the stolen Nautilus ultimate, and teamed up with Zhao Xin again to invade the Mount Emei jungle to hunt the Monkey.

Once spotted, it was an E-R lock-on!

Once locked by [Depth Charge], the real and fake Monkey Kings couldn't escape the pursuit and were easily apprehended by the two.

At 13 minutes, they rotated from the bottom lane to the top lane to help take the tier-one tower plating.

The plating on all three lanes was eaten clean, and the gold difference had long since reached 4k.

At 15 minutes, Ye Bo used the vision advantage in the jungle to sneak in and find Zoe eating a wave on the side lane.

Scout no longer had the qualifications to fight at this point and flashed backward to run without the slightest hesitation!

But Sylas pursued relentlessly, using an E and a Protobelt, stealing the ultimate with R, and then using a side-angled ultimate to chase with Portal Jump!

Zoe threw a Sleepy Trouble Bubble toward her face while running.

She just ran, running without looking back!

Anyway, after 1.5 seconds, Sylas would be pulled back by Portal Jump, and it was absolutely impossible to finish a skill combo in those 1.5 seconds.

Unfortunately, Scout still didn't understand.

Ye Bo understood Zoe too well, and after that play ten minutes ago, he suddenly felt he had become even more understanding of Sylas.

That play utilized the "return" effect of [Portal Jump].

But Portal Jump actually also has a "jump" effect.

Just as the portal at his feet was about to close and Sylas’s figure was about to retract.

The two chains of Abduct.

Suddenly surged forward, whipped out!

Sylas’s figure was teleported back to the original spot, but in the air, there was an absurdly long "super-long telescopic chain"!

Portal Jump has a mechanism that {forces a return} to the original spot.

But Sylas’s E2 also has a mechanism of {constant cast position} and {strong pursuit upon hit}.

Once the two were combined.

As long as you seize the gap between them, throwing out the E2 the moment before returning with Portal Jump, and having it land after returning, you can pull the target back to the original spot.

Letting Sylas perform—"Jump Abduction"!

Sleepy Trouble Bubble has an uncancelable cast animation, and the direction Zoe aimed was where Portal Jump would return, but Sylas’s detailed side-angled R was just enough to dodge it.

The super-long telescopic chain chased to her face.

Zoe had no room for any skill operation, was whipped down by two lashes, and kept twitching on the ground!

Scout in the camera was already unrecognizable.

He felt like he was this Zoe right now, being whipped in public by the person on the other side; his whole face was burning with pain, and he even had the impulse to violate the rules and turn off the camera!

There was a comment that described this scene very well.

[BLG is cheating! Why can they pick two Rambos! That’s unfair!]

Ye Bo analyzed the situation and made arrangements in an orderly manner.

"Shengqiang Ge, you go with the main group; I’ll go with Fiora to split push, I have TP too."

"We are very strong in the front, don't rush, just slowly take the resource fights and that’s it. I don't believe they can give up the Baron again!"

"By the way, Zoe’s R only has"

At this point, it is no longer easy for Kainan to play against Fiora; split-pushing means constantly enduring pressure, unable to utilize the champion's advantages.

And with Sylas so well-equipped, Fiora doesn't dare to act rashly in the side lane.

Sylas is able to seize the initiative in the side lane just the same!

The team BLG has never been good at mid-game macro, preferring to brawl, but during the lane-swapping phase, they not only failed to find opportunities but were frequently exposed for their own flaws.

Several times they tried to group up to force-kill Sylas, only to be counter-encircled, causing their disadvantage to snowball.

20 minutes.

Ye Bo directed the four others to start the Baron, while he stayed in the bottom lane to defend against Fiora.

Due to Sylas's strength, Fiora had been pushing for seven or eight minutes, yet hadn't even managed to take down the bottom lane's first turret!

Chen Zebin was very anxious, and the rest of BLG were very anxious too.

Only Scout, who seemed used to it, was not anxious; instead, after leaving Sylas, he was farming quite happily.

Inexplicably, from having the worst development, he had even quietly become the team's second-highest economy, second only to Fiora.

"How about the jungler tries to steal it? Let's not go and try," said the AD player Dagou, who was very thin both in and out of the game, weakly.

"It's hard to steal, I might not be able to get in." Weiwei knew that with Amumu and Zhao Xin guarding, if he got engaged on, there would be no return; he barely even had a chance to get close.

"Then give it up," Scout said in a low voice.

The tone was a bit like an old friend from EDG.

The four members of EDG took the Baron simply and naturally, then turned to head straight for the high ground.

Ye Bo, who had originally given up on the bottom first turret and was constantly ready to retreat and teleport, hadn't expected the opponent to give up the Baron as well.

He turned to go back to pushing the lane, while Chen Zebin, who still wanted to continue split-pushing, froze upon making eye contact with him, seemingly contemplating whether to go up and make a play.

However, just at this moment.

On the front high ground, news of victory had already arrived.

"The four members of EDG are pressuring the high ground! They're going in!"

"Amumu caught the opportunity of Zoe using her R to come forward and wanting to Q; he flashed and Q'd toward the landing spot of her R!"

"Using Zoe's position, he traveled directly into the enemy's heart! He caught four people at once!!!"

Ye Bo had previously reminded Meiko that Zoe's R only has a range of 575 yards, and counting the maximum radius her Q skill can reach, that's about 1200 yards.

And Amumu's Q has a full 1100 yards.

So as long as Zoe dared to R forward to pull her star for poke, Amumu could cast his Q toward the enemy's landing point.

Not to mention this time, Meiko even flashed directly past the Zoe in front of him and threw the bandage toward the starting point behind her!

Zhao Xin thrust out his long spear, carrying the scent of chrysanthemums.

Zeri slid up from the wall with her E and R, exploding with neon electric light!

Kainan's Slicing Maelstrom joined the fray instantly; the two major lightning-attribute AOEs almost completely overlapped with the range and shape of Amumu's ultimate!

Fully electrified!

"Instant melt!!!"

"A one-second collapse in the true sense of a 4v4 front-line battle! This is the terrifying aspect of EDG's team-fight composition; as long as they engage even slightly well, it's hard to play against, and they had such a huge advantage in the early game!"

"In that case, there's no need to defend against the split-push anymore, EDG should be able to directly—eh?"

"Bin doesn't seem convinced!"

Fiora had originally been torn between whether to go back to defend or continue to stalemate with Sylas in the side lane.

As it turned out, when he looked back, his home was gone!

What was there to hesitate about?

Because another Jax had appeared within the team, Chen Zebin had been trying his best to restrain his desire to make plays this game, wanting to atone for his poor start.

So he had been holding back from taking risks in a 1v1 against Sylas.

But now that his home was about to be gone, naturally there was no need to worry about that anymore.

Fiora charged forward with minions, initiated with R [Grand Challenge], and found four vitals on Sylas.

Regardless of whether he could win or not, he would perform the mechanics first!

Sylas threw a Q to slow him, Fiora used his sword to parry!

The moment the sword formation pierced out, the blade danced at high speed, carrying Fiora's figure as he flashed and shifted in an instant.

"R-W-A-E-Flash-Q"

A standard Fiora one-second four-vitals combo; a golden healing zone appeared under his feet almost instantly!

Sylas's equipment was indeed very good.

But Fiora's set of four vitals hit instantly, a total of 72% of maximum health in {True Damage} (18%*4), which was still a sword technique that could be called extremely terrifying!

However, Ye Bo actually had many ways to play it, such as using W and Zhonya's to stall, or directly retreating with E-Flash and Rocketbelt for a three-stage displacement to pull away; at the very least, he could guarantee he wouldn't die.

It was just that, facing the opponent's "challenge," and it being an inconsequential attempt anyway.

Ye Bo's fighting spirit was also ignited.

He had a sudden inspiration... Sylas, could he also do it?

[Hijack] chains flew out.

Backhanded, Sylas also hung a Grand Challenge on the opponent, finding the four vitals spread across the enemy's body.

Frontal W [Kingslayer] for the first vital.

[Abscond] E-A for the second vital—then follow with an instant A-Flash!

The passive slash from [Petricite Burst] brought out by the A-Flash simultaneously broke the three vitals on the right!

Finally, pushing forward with [Rocketbelt], the fourth vital!

"Sylas's one-second four-vitals"!

The same golden healing zone lit up.

The chains swung with one less frequency than the rapier, but with faster flashing and shifting, more terrifying "sword technique" thrusts, and even more terrifying burst!

The biggest difference between the two was this.

When these four vitals were hit, it wasn't just the extra true damage from the four vitals themselves; what was higher was actually Sylas's own base damage.

Compared to the Sylas who was instantly left at low health.

The full-health Fiora... his entire body was instantly pierced with countless holes, falling to the ground in a second!

The camera of the entire venue was focused here, including the other eight people on the field.

Sylas then teleported to the mid-lane minion wave to show off at the crystal gate.

With his teammates deliberately waiting, they struck together and smashed the enemy crystal!

Shouts of surprise erupted everywhere!

(End of chapter)