"Both sides' lineups are quite extreme," Remember commented. "Top is mainly focused on defense, while YM has to attack desperately in the early stages. The 3C's are all Poke heroes, so they definitely won't be allowed to drag it out past 30 minutes."
Bobby, who had just returned to the lounge, looked at the TV screen with an extremely vexed expression.
His heart turned cold when he saw the lineup.
From the beginning, the team's BP had been led by the nose. After taking Vampire, they could only choose to force the lineup in order to deal with Poke.
The forced opening system required at least two heroes to cooperate with each other. Otherwise, the single entry of a single hero would be easily resolved by pulling.
In the end, he took Bull's Head and Zach, two characters with strong opening methods, but their early abilities were very weak. With Vampire, the three of them were the type to take a beating without fighting back in the early stages.
Bobby followed Zoom's advice and chose Orne, who could currently tank and fight and had a certain advantage against Jess. In order to make up for the lack of a core physical output in the lineup, Old Dreams could only play Little Pao, who could cooperate with the forced opening heroes.
At the end of the BP, Bobby looked back and saw that his team's lineup could only be described as crouching.
How could Sorrow defend the jungle under the strong offensive of YM Jess, Zooey, and Troll?
With Little Pao and Vampire as the double CS, who could withstand the mid-game?
Although Tristana wasn't as extreme as Policewoman, her strength curve over time was also a U. In the early stages, she relied on the combination of E [Explosive Spark] and W [Rocket Jump], and her ability to line up wasn't weak. In the later stages, she relied on the passive range advantage provided.
However, this mid-game hero was very awkward. Before the Endless three-piece set was made, the damage output of the critical hit ADC wasn't guaranteed.
The explosive damage wasn't that high, and the range wasn't that strong. It was stuck there, just like the Gold and Silver ranked players in the ranking competition.
Little Pao couldn't shoulder the heavy burden of the team's mid-game output, and Vampire wasn't up to the job either.
Then how was TOP going to play in the mid-game?
Bobby thought about it as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
Bobby replayed the entire BP game in his mind again. He felt that the moment he chose Vampire, the outcome of the entire BP game had been decided.
Red Rice immediately brought out Zooey and Jayce. These two heroes could suppress Vampire in the online stage, and they could even form a mid-stage double poke. They were very strong.
In order to deal with YM's system, Bobby had to completely mess up his entire lineup.
Normally speaking, the blue team, which had the right to choose first, could build a lineup system around the first chosen hero. The red team, on the other hand, could only react as they saw fit. Most of the lineup formed was not a complete system.
However, the situation was clearly reversed. The red team YM constructed the system as they pleased, while the blue team TOP struggled to deal with it. In the end, they ended up with a nondescript lineup.
Red Rice …
Bobby's heart was filled with despair. The only thing that could defeat the top coaches was Patch.
Lin Yan did not know what the TOP coach was thinking. He bought a decaying potion and controlled Zooey to run towards the river.
Twilight Starspirit was still carrying a skipping rope as she sped up. She looked lively and cute as she jumped.
In this game, his summoner skill was Healing, and the main rune was Electrocution. His explosive ability was fierce, but in fact, this was not the mainstream configuration in the arena.
In the professional arena, where stability was the main focus, most of the Zooey players would bring [Secrets of Unsealing]. It was very good whether it was a life-saving skill or a support.
However, Lin Yan still remembered Zhuo Ding's provocation before the game. He wanted to beat his opponent online and needed the suppression provided by Electrocution.
The secondary element was the stopwatch and the small soldier death device of the Enlightenment system.
Although the stopwatch was cut by a fist, Lin Yan brought it to avoid being forced to open by Zach, Bull's Head, and Orne to save his life.
Anyway, under normal circumstances, Zooey would not bring the talent [A Little Magical Shoes]. After all, Zooey played at a fast pace on the field. She often used the second speed shoes when she returned to the city for the first time. The activation time of the shoes provided by the talent was still too long. It was not as practical as the stopwatch.
Lin Yan glanced at Zhuo Ding's rune on the opposite side. It was nothing special. It was Phase Rush and the secondary element of Enlightenment. The summoner skill was Ignite.
It was obvious that he wanted to imitate Lin Yan and use the high damage provided by Ignite to try to solo kill.
"Xiao Tian is trying to invade at level one. YM's top, middle, and jungle combination is very strong!"
Phyllostachys Pubescens brought Siba to the blue buff camp in the top half of TOP and tried to switch buffs with the opponent.
"Before Zoom went online, he went to his own top half and found YM's jungler. The sad Zach hurriedly brought the duo to the bottom half of YM's jungle!"
When Zoom found Phyllostachys Pubescens going into the jungle, he paid a small price. He was hit by Jin Gong's Jess and lost a bit of his health.
"Both sides will switch junglers and start with the opponent's blue buff." Remember looked at the minimap. "YM will protect Jess and Zooey while TOP will protect Little Pao in the bottom lane."
Both sides' choices were quite reasonable. Sorrow did not plan to help the top laner Aoun in the beginning. Little Pao was their core attack in the early and mid stages.
Lin Yan saw that TOP did not plan to defend the jungle and controlled Zooey to return to the middle lane. As soon as she appeared from the bushes in the middle lane, Q's [Meteor Rush] was thrown.
Zhuo Ding's positioning was quite careful. He knew that Lin Yan would appear in the top half of the jungle, so he kept his position close to the bottom.
Lin Yan saw that Vampire's positioning was stable and gave up on the idea of switching buffs. He used [Meteor Rush] to hit three ranged minions.
He continued to move forward and invited Zhuo Ding to switch buffs.
Knight frowned. He felt that Lin Yan had already used his skill and he still had Q's [Blood Conversion] in his hand. This round of buffs would not be a loss no matter what.
He could not wait for Lin Yan to come to him. At this moment, he did not retreat. Instead, he took another step forward and took another step in front of Zooey.
Zhuo Ding wanted to wait for Lin Yan to use his normal attack with his passive [Fireworks] before using Q. This way, he could maximize the recovery effect of his [Blood Conversion].
Both sides had already entered the range of their normal attacks. Zhuo Ding saw Zooey raise her hand and immediately threw out a normal attack. Then, he spat on Q's [Blood Conversion].
However, during this period, the health bar above his head did not change!
Lin Ran pressed the S button to stop his normal attack. The normal attack that was accompanied by smoke and fire did not fly out!
When Vampire used his Q skill, Lin Yan controlled Zooey to drink a bottle of Corruption Potion. She used her normal attack on Zhuo Ding and retreated decisively.
Zhuo Ding wanted to chase after her and use another normal attack to trigger Phase Rush.
However, Zooey had already stretched out her arms. With her back facing him in an extremely stupid and cute posture, she quickly escaped from Vladimir's normal attack range!
Zhuo Ding subconsciously bit his lower lip.
In this round of Health Swap, he had taken Zooey's normal attack and the corrosive effect of the Corruption Potion. On the other hand, Lin Yan had taken an AQ. Both sides had also attracted a round of focused fire from the long-range minions.
Looking at the health bar alone, he was definitely the winner. After all, Lin Yan had taken a bottle of Corruption Potion, and there was no need for him to touch the two bottles of health potions on him.
However, the pressure Lin Yan displayed and his ability to control the details as he pleased still made Zhuo Ding feel uneasy.
At the moment, he was not considered Zooey's best brother, but he knew this hero quite well. After all, as a professional player, who did not know Zooey?
Zhuo Ding knew that Zooey's passive [Fireworks] would cause the trajectory of the normal attack to disappear. The entire normal attack process was extremely fast, and the raising of her hand was quite short.
Under such circumstances, it was much more difficult to press S to block the normal attack when raising his hand. Zhuo Ding could not guarantee that he would succeed every time.
However, Lin Yan's movements were relaxed. Even pressing S to attack was smooth.
F * ck, was he really that smooth?
He was obviously very confident in his own skills. If he failed to block the normal attack of [Fireworks], he would be wasted by Vampire. It would be quite a loss for him to swap health.
This kind of elegant and bold play put a lot of pressure on Knight.
Zhuo Ding forced himself to focus. Otherwise, he would lose this round very badly.
Lin Yan waited for the Q's Flying Star to rotate. Then, he closed the distance again to give the opponent enough deterrence.
Vampire's level one Q had a cooldown of nine seconds. It was a little longer than Zooey's Flying Star. Without any skills, Zhuo Ding could only retreat and stay away from his long-range minions.
The full damage of the Flying Star was enough to kill the long-range minions.
At this time, Zhuo Ding did not dare to swap health with Lin Yan again. YM had three more long-range minions. If he went forward and used Q to drain health, the three long-range minions would not let him have an easy time.
Lin Yan was not in a hurry to finish off the remaining three top-level minions. He stood to the side and prepared to finish off the minions when they were low on health. He carried out his strategy of stockpiling the minions.
Knight felt annoyed as he watched.
Lin Yan was his teacher and friend. Naturally, he was also a learning target. Zhuo Ding did not miss any of YM's matches. Because he did not have a first-person perspective, he could only use the OB perspective to figure out Lin Yan's thoughts.
This strategy of stockpiling the minions left a deep impression on Zhuo Ding.
It was too abnormal.
Generally speaking, the top laner and ADC on the two flanks used this strategy the most. In the middle lane, the strategy of stockpiling the minions had been in an awkward situation where no one cared about it for the past two years.
First of all, the biggest difference between the middle lane and the top lane was that the minions were short. Stockpiling the minions would not be able to stockpile many minions.
Moreover, stockpiling the minions on the two flanks to enter the tower could be coordinated with the jungler to kill over the tower, causing the opponent to lose a large number of minions to develop.
In the middle lane, which was accessible in all directions, it would be very difficult for the jungler to complete the tower in the early game.
Moreover, most of the midlaners had long arms and had AOE damage. At worst, they could use skills to kill minions and mana to clear the minions.
However, Lin Yan stubbornly turned the strategy of stockpiling the minions into a trend. He first used his personal suppression or hero strength to seize the minions and force the opposing midlaner to retreat to the back.
After pushing the minions, he did not stay in the middle lane. Instead, he went to find trouble with the opposing jungler.
This way, it was equivalent to expanding the advantage of the midlaner to the jungle. Then, the jungler would feed the midlaner, forming a virtuous cycle.
Lin Yan saw through the essence of League of Legends.
This game did not only have matchups, but it was also a 5v5 team game.
With the changes in the version and the continuous improvement of the professional level, the possibility of winning the game by relying on one person to carry the whole game was getting lower and lower.
If you wanted to win comfortably, you had to fatten up the other four members of the team. "The first father is bad, the second father is flat, and the third father and fourth father can win as they wish." This sentence was not a joke.
As the trend of the game continued to develop, the positioning of the midlaner became more and more diverse. Lin Yan's strategy of stockpiling minions also received the favor of many professional midlaners.
At this time, Zhuo Ding saw through Lin Yan's intention of stockpiling minions and immediately began to call for people.
"Sorrow, when you reach level 3, go straight to the middle lane and help me push the minions!"
Sorrow, who was controlling Zach to pull the blue buff to the Demon Swamp Frog's camp, heard the call for help from his own midlaner. He glanced at the middle lane and knew that he could not let Lin Yan succeed. Otherwise, he would be the unlucky one later.
He agreed. While eating the blue buff, he punished the Demon Swamp Frog to reduce its HP, speeding up the progress of farming.
Lin Yan relied on his Meteor and Electrocution to swagger in front of his own melee minions.
Zhuo Ding saw that Lin Yan sometimes moved too aggressively and even walked out of the minions' protection range. Zhuo Ding also tried to go forward and change his HP.
Anyway, he did not take damage from the minions. Vampire used Q's [Blood Conversion] and normal attacks to rush and run.
Lin Yan had Meteor and the additional damage from the passive [Firework Shooting], so he was not afraid of Zhuo Ding.
When Lin Yan finished eating the second wave of minions, both he and Knight only had half of their HP left.
When the cannon minions came to the middle lane, YM's minions had already been completely stocked up. There were a total of 12 of them.
And one of them had a star mark on its head.
This meant that after Zooey killed it, it would drop 10,000 [Magic Hand] spell fragments, which contained a summoner's skill or the active effect of an equipment.
Lin Yan glanced at it. As usual, he pulled a full Meteor and smashed it heavily on the ranged minions.
"Xiao Tian has appeared on the top lane. He wants to cooperate with Jess to catch Orne!"
After Phyllostachys Pubescens reached level 3, he used his first gank. However, the pillar could not trap Zoom. Although Jin Gong's cannon was very accurate, the damage was blocked by the shield provided by Orne's [Bellows Flame Breath].
Xiao Tian hit Zoom twice. After lowering his HP, he still could not find a suitable opportunity to kill him. He could only give up.
"I'm coming!" At this time, Sorrow's voice came from Zhuo Ding's earpiece. "Go go go, hit him with a flash!"
Sorrow knew that Lin Yan had just used Meteor and was at his weakest. Xiao Tian had also appeared on the top lane. It was the best time to attack!
Zhuo Ding saw that his own jungler had landed and decisively used the minions to clean up YM's cannon.
Although this cannon was not enough to raise him to level 3, it would undoubtedly reduce some of the minions' damage for Sorrow's gank!
"Zach has landed, crouched in the grass, and flew out!"
Accompanied by a strange cry, a poop yellow tank appeared in Lin Yan's vision!
However, he was already prepared. Phyllostachys Pubescens had appeared on the top lane, and he was still tanking. It would be strange if Sorrow did not attack him.
He drank a bottle of Decay Potion, used the minions on the cannon, and used Heal!
While recovering his health, his W [Spellstealing Hands] and Heal provided double movement speed. Lin Yan successfully avoided the landing point of Zach's rubber slingshot.
Sorrow and Zhuo Ding were shocked when they saw this scene.
Lin Yan did not retreat. Instead, he continued to move forward. Now, he was standing beside his own jungler, and his position was between TOP's junglers!
"What is Brother Ran doing?" Ze Yuan was shocked. "Is he relying on his minions to fight 1v2?"
Before Zach landed on the ground, Lin Yan's minions had already killed the cannon, and Zach had successfully reached level 3!
While learning E's [Hypnotic Bubble], Lin Yan's normal attack was accompanied by three missiles provided by Spellstealing Hands, and they hit the jungler with the magic shards!
High damage killed the jungler, and a skill dropped from its corpse.
A golden light flashed, and it was reflected in Lin Yan's eyes.
Barrier!
Lin Yan's expression softened when he saw the golden light, and TOP's junglers felt a heavy stone pressing down on their hearts.
"Retreat, retreat, retreat! It's about time!"
Sorrow shouted. At first, he wanted to use Flash, but when Lin Yan saw that Zach was advancing instead of retreating, he immediately remembered Vampire, who was riding on his face in the last game. He wanted to retreat immediately.
It was not a loss to use Heal for nothing …
However, Lin Yan did not allow him to retreat!
E's [Hypnotic Bubble] blew out the moment Zach landed, not giving Sorrow a chance to escape!
Zach could not use Flash while he was casting E's [Rubber Slingshot]. He could only use his displacement skill when his body was about to land.
At that time, he had already hit the bubble!
"Zach is sleepy. He tried to use Q's [Extended Strike] to hit Zach, but Brother Ran used the acceleration effect to circle around the junglers!"
Sorrow saw it clearly. His Q was very close to Lin Yan, and there was only one jungler between them!
However, he had already used Retribution in order to quickly level up to Level 3, so he was powerless now!
Zach's next normal attack would become a long ranged attack. Sorrow wanted to catch Lin Yan, but Zach was as slippery as a loach, weaving in and out of the junglers, so Sorrow could not catch him!
When the 1.5 seconds of Fatigue ended, Zach was forced to stay where he was and fell into a deep sleep!
"Zach, pick up the barrier. Shooting Star to the side!"
The Fatigue effect and the various skill gaps allowed Lin Yan to drag on until the cooldown of his Q's [Shooting Star] finished.
Sorrow's toes could not help but curl up. The huge rock that had been pressing down on his heart earlier had fallen. However, it did not fall lightly to the ground. Instead, it smashed down heavily with boundless might!
He knew that in a moment, this meteor would smash through his health bar like a boulder in his heart!
"Help me block it!" Sorrow hurriedly urged Zhuo Ding.
Zhuo Ding heard this and pursed his lips.
He naturally knew that he had to help block it.
But how?
Lin Yan's Shooting Star was to the side, and Zhuo Ding was still behind him. If he wanted to block it, he would have to use Flash.
But how could he use Flash in front of Zach?
Zhuo Ding hesitated and did not use Flash. He watched as the Shooting Star hit Zach!
Electrocution was triggered, and blood-red lightning fell from the sky, hitting Sorrow together with Zach's [Shooting Fire]!
Fortunately, Zach's skill level was low, and her equipment was not enhanced by magic, so the damage was not too high.
"Zach's health bar is less than 13%, but Zach is still attacking!"
Lin Yan saw that Sorrow wanted to run, so he immediately handed over the barrier he had just picked up, and his movement speed increased again.
Three missiles appeared around Zach again. She stretched out her snow-white arms and rushed towards Zach in an extremely annoying manner!
Sorrow's face turned as yellow as Zach's.
Don't come over here!
Even if he was the real Bu Jingyun, it was useless. Lin Yan stepped forward and attacked Zach with a normal attack. The combination of Decay Potion, Shooting Fire, and Spell Stealing Hand missiles all hit Zach. Sorrow could not take it at all!
"Zach's passive is about to be knocked out of Zach's!"
Just like the audience, Sorrow was shocked by this scene. Zach was chasing after Zach's mid laner!
Sorrow did not want to use Flash. Zhuo Ding did not leave any skills for him, so using Flash would be giving Lin Yan free skills. Zach was using his Flash to kill him, and it also dealt extra damage to him. It was a loss.
Lin Yan's normal attack knocked Zach out of his passive. A pile of poop turned into four pieces, and Lin Yan continued to attack him!
"Don't use Teleport, don't use Teleport. He can't kill me." Sorrow let out a sigh of relief and asked Zoom not to use Teleport to protect him.
Now that Zach had used up all his skills, he could not threaten him anymore. Lin Yan could not even take care of these four piles of poop.
"Knight can't catch up to Zach at all. Without any skills, he can only let Brother Ran retreat!"
[He was almost killed in a 2v1. Do you even know how to play?]
[Guys, can anyone tell me how Top's mid laner is going to catch him?]
[Isn't that too cruel?
How can Zach be so fierce?]
[They are not the same species. Top doesn't need to catch him. He can't beat him with his left hand anyway.]
Thanks to the shield provided by Barrier and the recovery from the Decay Potion, Lin Yan did not lose much HP this time.
"Zach used his passive to revive, but he doesn't dare to come to the mid lane anymore. He can only go back to his own jungle!"
Sorrow did not come, so Xiao Tian went to find him.
Phyllostachys Pubescens, who had failed to kill Zoom, passed by the mid lane with a big stick and helped Lin Yan push the minions.
"Troll went straight to the bottom half of the jungle and roamed with Zach. He wants to chase Zach out of his own jungle!"
Zhuo Ding was powerless. His own jungler came to the mid lane and was almost killed by Lin Yan. Naturally, he could not help him push the minions.
Now that the minions were under the tower, he could not give up so much EXP and money to help his own jungler.
Sorrow's face fell and he did not say anything.
Right now, he was truly overwhelmed with grief.
He was Zach, who did not have any passive skills. What did he have to defend the jungle?
Even his E [Elastic Slingshot] was useless. Troll's forced displacement could easily interrupt his charge!
"Zach was forced to leave the bottom half of his jungle, but he doesn't have enough gold coins to make a jungler. He can only risk going to the top half of YM to steal minions!"
Lin Yan could guess Sorrow's route. He saw that Xiao Tian was happily farming, so he went back to the top half of the jungle.
Zach jumped rope all the way to his own red buff camp. He stuck an eye in the wall.
In less than five seconds, Sorrow appeared in his field of vision!
Lin Yan stopped going back to the mid lane and went back to the jungle.
"Sorrow is very alert. He used Punishment the moment the red buff's HP dropped below the kill line and took the minions!"
However, Lin Yan appeared and forced Sorrow to retreat while picking up Punishment.
"Zach has Punishment. Sorrow doesn't dare to wander around the top half of YM anymore!"
Sorrow puffed up his cheeks helplessly. If Lin Yan found out that he was stealing minions again, Zach decided to use Punishment to take it back.
The only way was to wait for the Punishment that Zach picked up to disappear.
But by then, Xiao Tian would have arrived.
Sorrow had no choice but to farm the harmless River Crab to calm himself down.
In the TOP lounge, Bobby could not sit still. He could not hide his guilt.
He knew that there was a big problem with his BP. If he had chosen a strong jungler for his team, Lin Yan would not have dared to be so arrogant.
Sorrow returned to the city with no minions to farm, while Xiao Tian made a lot of money.
After the first round of farming, the two junglers widened the experience gap between them!
"Sorrow is at a disadvantage, but Knight is a bit comfortable in the middle lane."
He remembered that Zhuo Ding's last hit never fell. He even took advantage of the gap when Lin Yan went to the jungle to support him.
Lin Yan had been using skills all this time. Even with the Corruption Potion, he could not withstand such a high usage rate.
Zach did not have enough mana, so he could only use it sparingly. Lin Yan did not want to return to the city. He wanted to save 1100 mana and go home to buy a pair of shoes. He did not have enough gold coins now.
Now that minions did not drop teleport, Lin Yan would lose a lot of minions when he returned to the city. He could only hold on and wait for the ninth wave of Artillerymen to arrive. He would have enough gold coins.
Zhuo Ding was not very happy. He could get the right to line up now purely because Sorrow had helped him eat too many skills.
Otherwise, with Zach's abundant mana, he would have to line up under the tower to eat.
The ninth wave of minions finally arrived. Lin Yan knew that Zhuo Ding was going to level 6. When the time came, there was a possibility that he could kill him with Ignite.
He was not greedy for minions. He used the last amount of mana he had to pull out Flying Star to clear the ranged minions. Then, he used the minions to eat the Artillerymen.
When he reached level 6, he quickly returned to the city, bought the shoes and rushed back to the line.
Zhuo Ding did the same and used the minions on the Artillerymen.
But he had to push the other minions himself.
But Vampire, this hero, did not have the ability to clear the line quickly before the first big item was made.
The cooldown of E [Blood Tide] was very long and the damage was not high. The Q [Blood Conversion] was still a single-target damage skill.
He had no choice but to push the minions bit by bit.
This wave of Artillerymen was finally cleared, but the tenth wave of minions came again and blocked the minions in front of YM's tower!
Zhuo Ding could only give up the idea of returning to the city. Otherwise, if the minions did not enter the tower, he would lose a lot of minions.
In the end, before this wave of minions was finished, Lin Yan had already rushed back to the middle.
He looked at Vampire, whose HP had fallen to half in order to clear the minions, and suddenly had a plan.
Lin Yan controlled Zach R to move behind the wall of the Beaked Birds' camp and then pressed the return button.
The moment R [Turn Transition] forcefully pulled Zach's body back to the middle route, Lin Yan threw E [Hypnosis Bubble] at Vampire in front of the tower in the distance!
Due to the lack of vision, Zhuo Ding did not know Lin Yan's little trick.
He only saw a Hypnosis Bubble shooting toward him.
Zhuo Ding's first reaction was that Lin Yan was joking.
There were no walls or buildings between the two of them, and Zach's Hypnosis Bubble's displacement distance was not very far. There was no way it could hit him.
Wasn't this a waste of mana?
Zhuo Ding did not move. He used E [Blood Tide] to blow up the minions' HP again.
The Hypnosis Bubble's flying speed was not slow, and it shot all the way.
However, it did not stop at Zhuo Ding's expected location. Instead, it continued to fly toward him. The distance of the bubble's flight was already more than 1,000 yards!
This was not scientific!
What was going on?
Zhuo Ding was shocked. Vampire, who was 1,300 yards away from Zach, was hit by the Hypnosis Bubble amidst the exclamations of the audience and the commentators!
"What's with this Hypnosis Bubble?" Ze Yuan screamed. "Isn't it too long?"
Vampire's movement speed was slow while Zhuo Ding's heart raced. In his nervousness, he could only rely on his intuition to activate the Blood Pool before he fell asleep!
However, the Blood Pool lasted for two seconds, while the Hypnosis Bubble's drowsy state lasted for 2.2 seconds!
In other words, when Zhuo Ding recovered from the Blood Pool, he was still in a deep sleep!
Amidst the screams of the audience, Lin Ran pulled the Flying Star back, then moved forward and threw the Flying Star out!
With a flash of golden light, Zach closed the distance between them and shot a Flying Star that dealt double the damage into Vampire's weak body!
The next moment, a normal attack with the passive [Shooting Fireworks] hit Vampire.
A blood-red lightning bolt struck down from the sky!
Electrocution was triggered, and Zhuo Ding's HP bar was completely emptied!
"Hello!" Zach looked cute as she held the jump rope.