Chapter 20: He Probably Calculated the Area of Ming Kai's Psychological Trauma!

Before Jiang Ming could finish speaking, the live stream was instantly flooded with gift effects. The tycoons' "Excavator" and "Blood Vial" covered the screen, while ordinary players also began spamming "Flowers" and "Applause" in the bullet comments.

"The so-called Crescent Moon Instant Kill Technique!" Seeing the gifts had mostly stopped, Jiang Ming lightly tapped the keyboard. The Zed on screen simultaneously threw a shuriken, coughed, and said, "Actually, it's just an application of Zed's skill mechanics, and the ultimate..."

He deliberately paused for half a second. The live stream screen suddenly switched to the skill description page. "Friends in the live stream who have the conditions might as well check Zed's skill description—Zed's shadow clone will mimic his skills."

"Everyone usually uses W to coordinate with the main body for a double Q or double E to deal damage, but I wonder if anyone has noticed a detail: Zed's ultimate also creates a shadow."

【!!!】

【Damn, it really is, there's an explanation below.】

【Holy crap! Three shadows casting skills at the same time?】

【Case solved! Just now, W was cast early to the side, and the instant the ultimate shadow landed, three E's plus three Q's all hit!】

【So in an instant, the Gnar ate three sets of Zed's skills. Looking at it that way, a full-health one-shot isn't exactly unacceptable.】

【Designer, look at him! A full-health one-shot that can't be nerfed, how can we play?】

【Zed is this strong, let's nerf Fiora instead.】

Jiang Ming watched the scrolling bullet comments, a smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

S3 players might have only a vague understanding of numerical calculations, but this enthusiasm for delving into guides was far more adorable than the "keyboard warriors" of later eras who only blamed their teammates.

Returning to this barbaric era, one of the opportunities in the LOL game was his unparalleled familiarity with the playstyles of various champions.

To be clear, this was a golden age where a streamer could become wealthy just by teaching a single champion, such as Fiora's one-second five auto-attacks or Riven's lightning-fast Q-A.

"Feeling good about feeding the mid-lane dad, huh? If you can't win, why not buy Zhonya's?" The Caitlyn in the bottom lane suddenly started raging in the public chat, the sound of keyboard tapping almost penetrating the voice channel.

In the early game, their own jungler, Lee Sin, focused on the Gnar but failed to gain an advantage. Their Caitlyn and Janna were heavily targeted by the Imperial Prince a few times, which made them very dissatisfied. Now, seeing the Gnar who had consumed team resources still sending warmth to Zed, the Caitlyn player started raging directly.

To be honest, people in the esports barbaric era had poor game understanding, but their combat power when typing furiously to insult others was truly top-tier.

Zaun players are terrifying like this.

"I..."

Wu Zhuangtai stared at the gray screen, his fingers hovering over the Enter key, trembling slightly. What could he say? Was he supposed to admit he had been killed like a pig by the opponent's "super-version understanding"?

"Trash champion!" He finally slammed the mouse down hard. "Did the designer's brain get flooded? A champion that can one-shot full health without being nerfed, is it meant to stay for the New Year?"

With a heavy heart but no way to vent, and with no hope of getting his revenge for now, the man blamed everything on the champion.

Jiang Ming did not know the thoughts of the opposing Gnar.

At this moment, he was still rushing towards victory in this game, and incidentally creating various god-tier plays for entertainment value.

At nine minutes and fifteen seconds, Zed's ultimate icon lit up again.

Familiar recipe, familiar taste. With the mid-lane controlling lane priority and radiating vision into the jungle, Jiang Ming used the gap when Ming Kai's Lee Sin ganked top again, and together with the Imperial Prince, they slipped down to the bottom lane.

Speaking of which, the Imperial Prince player was also sensible. After knowing their mid-lane was the carry, he was obedient to every word, actively buying wards until he finally bought an extra Sightstone.

Four-man gank on two, their own jungler was on the top lane, and the mid-lane Gnar had turned into a ground-bound spirit.

The Caitlyn player, seeing the two big men appearing behind her, felt immense pain in her heart.

Tired, let it all be destroyed, I don't want to struggle anymore.

Unlike the Caitlyn who gave up on treatment, facing the purple team's tower dive, the support Janna still wanted to struggle once more.

She cast her Q skill early to predict, releasing it when the Imperial Prince's EQ combo entered the tower.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Crowd control!

If we get crowd controlled, we still have a chance.

The Janna player's eyes showed the Eye-Reveal Phase of expectation. He was holding his ultimate; if the Q skill interrupted the Imperial Prince and Zed's engage, then the follow-up damage, relying on the Exhaust and the ultimate's knockback, had hope of saving both him and the AD.

"Damn esports Adou, giving up on treatment already."

Cursing the AD, the Janna player focused intently. When he saw the Q skill blow the Imperial Prince away, he was overjoyed.

However, the Shadow Hunter reacted extremely quickly, evading it with 【Shadow Assault】.

"Don't look down on people!"

【Exhaust】 was applied first to prevent the AD from dying instantly. He had seen the tragic scene of the mid-lane Gnar being one-shotted at full health and could not afford any luck.

Then came the ultimate knockback!

Before the bottom lane tower, the Imperial Prince player was just like the supporting role in a crosstalk performance. First blown away by the Q, then covered by the ultimate along with the blue team's duo, only to be knocked out again by the ultimate. The Janna's Q and R skills both landed fully on him.

The job of the supporting role is to support. So who did the Imperial Prince's ridiculous movements support?

Obviously, the answer soon appeared before the eyes of everyone in the bottom lane.

It must be said, the Janna player did a very thorough job on protection, applying various crowd control skills to Jiang Ming and the jungler Imperial Prince within an extreme timeframe.

"However, the Shadow Hunter of S3, his terror is far from just this."

"Either embrace the shadow, or die in the darkness."

Jiang Ming's Zed, as if foreseeing the future, returned to his original position with the second phase of his ultimate, and the moment Exhaust expired, he re-engaged the battlefield with his W shadow clone.

The Smile and Weifan on the side did not betray their title as the world's number one bottom lane duo at present.

Smile's Ezreal and Weifan's Janna attacked simultaneously.

Amidst the flashing Jin Guang, the Janna's ultimate 【Crescendo】 controlled the two, Ezreal's Mystic Shot precisely pierced through the Janna's body—and Zed's Shadow Slash, like a scythe of death, completely harvested the last sliver of health.

Double Kill!

Unstoppable!

Five kills went into the bag, and the system voice announcing "Unstoppable" rang out in Summoner's Rift.

Compared to the exclamations of the audience outside the live stream, the shock of Smile and Weifan inside the game as teammates was no less.

His laning strength was unfathomable, his personal awareness was in place, and even in support and coordination, not a single flaw could be seen.

"Vision!"

Weifan stared at the black-and-white screen and suddenly marked the river vision. "This person's vision setup has something to it; he completely blocked Ming Kai's gank route."

"Yes." The smiling voice sounded somewhat dry. "From the ward placed in the F4 camp at the start, to having Zac act before every roam... this person even calculated the area of Ming Kai's psychological trauma."

He was not just playing the game himself, but had truly mobilized all five members of his own team.

Just like this four-man dive on two now, why was it so effortless?

The blue side's chat channel from one minute ago!

(JM: Zac, sell your butt a bit to lure the Blind Monk up; your passive isn't ready yet, so he will consider opening up the game from your top lane.)

Yes, this person had actually figured out Ming Kai's mindset for ganking top lane; the top laner deliberately exposed a flaw to attract the jungler, while he himself brought the Imperial Prince to dive the bottom lane.