"All the best, YM!"
Fans in the stadium took the lead in cheering for the home team. Due to the large number of spectators and the noisy environment, he had to raise his voice to the maximum.
The cheering sounds from his vocal cords that showed signs of cracking did not seem out of place in the stadium where the atmosphere was lively. Instead, it made the other YM fans cheer loudly!
Seeing this, the KZ fans did not want to be outdone. Both sides did not care about who came first and used their loudest voices to cheer for the team they supported!
The sound recording equipment could not block out such a majestic volume. It filled the empty rental house through the earpiece.
Su Cheng was about to turn on the mute mode. She raised her finger and hesitated for two seconds before she gave up.
Otherwise, if she was alone, the house would be so quiet that it made her panic.
She made sure that the volume of the tablet was not loud enough to disturb the neighbors next door. Then, she took off her slippers and threw herself onto the bed.
Her long black hair, which had just been blown dry, drooped down and draped over the plain white silk quilt. The contrast in color was particularly eye-catching.
The live broadcast gave a close-up of Lin Yan. Under the camera lens, his face was handsome and his skin was fair. The spotlights on the stage did not shine directly on him, but the scattered residual light shone on his face from the side. His high nose bridge was like the dividing line between light and dark. Coupled with the gold-rimmed glasses, he looked gentle and elegant.
Su Cheng curled her fingers slightly. She could not help but brush her boyfriend on the screen. Her fingertips tapped on his lips, and the screen made clicking sounds very cooperatively.
Then, she seemed to have thought of something. Her cheeks were slightly tipsy and her ears were burning. She hugged the pillow and rolled around, covering herself with the quilt.
The sound of the tablet was not turned off. Mille's voice was continuously transmitted into her ears.
"For the rune situation, Brother Ran has Electrocution, Taste of Blood, Zombie Guard, and Greedy Hunter. The secondary attribute is Enlightenment Minions, Decontamination Tool, and Time Distortion Tonic …"
Mille's gaze swept to the BDD column again. He could not help but raise his eyebrows. "Isn't Ryze a little too stable?!"
"Instead of using the Mana Binding Belt, he chose to use the Nullifying Mana Sphere?"
Doll was amused by BDD's runes. "He didn't even buy the Blue Crystal when he went out. Instead, he bought the Doran Ring and a Health Potion. Coupled with the Summoner's Weaken skill, is he really trying to make a name for himself?"
Long-hair smiled. "But on a certain level, he did make the right bet. Little Temptress brought Ignite this round. She obviously wants to gain a certain advantage online."
Now, Teleportation was too strong. Even Little Temptress, a Summoner's main skill, had become a TP. She could be used to provide support or to fill the lane, which was very effective.
However, Lin Yan's killing intent had already been aroused in this match. He chose Ignite, which was also strengthened, in order to gain an advantage at the end of the line.
From this point of view, BDD had indeed made the right bet. Lin Yan used a hero like Little Temptress in the deciding match because he did not want to develop steadily with him. The Weaken and Nullifying Mana Sphere were very restrictive on Little Temptress, an Assassin who attacked suddenly.
"YM wants to fight a one-level team. Although Xialuo's one-level linkage has been weakened, it's still a one-level team against the combination of KZ, Kesha, and Bull's Head!"
Moreover, BDD's Ryze was not of much use. Little Peanut looked at the image of Qian Jue's goat spirit that appeared above his head. He did not want to give the imprint to Phyllostachys Pubescens, so he stood guard in the jungle for a while. When he saw YM rushing in as a team, he decisively gave up his position and ran to his own Blue Buff Camp in the upper half of the jungle.
Lin Yan looked thoughtful when he saw KZ's decisive retreat.
The current scene was too similar to the one back then.
"They might want to copy the strategy from the last round of the group stage," he reminded. "Jin Gong, be careful when you're level three."
The other four people more or less reacted. Jin Gong took a deep breath. "Don't worry, he definitely won't be able to kill me."
Nanqiang's ability to cross towers was quite weak. As long as he stayed under the tower, KZ's jungler would not be able to cross the tower.
"Playing the same old trick, huh?" Mongoose smiled sinisterly. "He really dares to use it again."
Lin Yan smiled when he heard this.
Playing the same old trick was the name of Little Temptress's R skill.
Jack curled his lips in disdain. "He's out of tricks, right? Otherwise, why would KZ use such a risky strategy?"
Hiari, who was sitting in KZ's lounge, stared intently at the screen. He pinched the fabric of his trousers around his knees and looked extremely nervous.
He was indeed out of tricks. He was at the end of his rope.
KZ had thrown out all his tactical reserves so far, but Hiari hadn't expected Jack EZ to play so well. YM had actually hidden a jungler, Qing Gang Ying.
It could only be said that YM had more trump cards than he had imagined.
Now, all that was left was this tactic that had been used in the last round. Hiari hoped that Red Rice hadn't deduced the full picture of this tactic from the exposed clues.
Probably not.
Hiari comforted himself. KZ had already collapsed a little in the early stages of the last round. He hadn't executed it well at all. How could Red Rice deduce it?
In the YM lounge on the other side, Red Rice's breathing immediately quickened when he saw Little Peanut give up the bottom half of the jungle and run to the top half with the blue buff.
When he heard Lin Yan and the other team members had the same thoughts as him in the team voice chat, Red Rice's heart was hanging by a thread.
Gou Ba, who had no work to do now, turned his gaze to the TV screen in the room.
He had participated in the entire tactical deduction, but he still wasn't confident.
He and Red Rice were unsure if KZ's tactical idea was the same as what they had expected.
Perhaps Little Peanut had coincidentally gone to farm monsters during that time period?
Perhaps Little Peanut's target of protection was the mid lane and not the bottom lane duo?
Nobody could guarantee that the tactic that they had deduced before was correct.
After Lin Yan went online, he hid at the back. He wanted to temporarily hand over control of the creeps to his opponent so that the creeps would be transferred to his side.
Nevertheless, BDD was not stupid. He knew that it was impossible for Ryze to be a match for Little Witch in the early stages. The only way he could win was to push the creeps crazily and take advantage of Little Witch's weak ability to clear creeps to hoard a large wave of creeps in front of her tower. Lefran would not dare to go up and switch with the creeps.
However, in this match, BDD did not bring his mana belt and chose to equip the Doran Ring. His mana was not enough to support him to push the creeps recklessly.
Thus, he could only release the creeps in front of the tower and slowly develop.
BDD had already made up his mind. Seeing that Little Witch had no intention of pushing the creeps, he simply stood at the back and did not move.
He planned to wait for Lin Yan to push the creeps as he could not hold on any longer, then he would finish off the creeps himself.
As long as the creeps were pulled to the front of the tower, everything would be fine.
Nonetheless, BDD did not expect Lin Yan to not finish off the creeps at all!
The three close-range creeps were reduced to critical health at the same time. Lin Yan only lifted his hand to point at one of them.
He did not want the remaining two creeps.
BDD was stunned.
'Is there something wrong with your brain?
'You could've just used a W [Magic Shadow Perplexing Track] to replenish all the creeps. In order to save skills, you insisted on throwing those two attacks?'
Seeing how eager Lin Yan was to take a step forward, BDD could guess that his opponent wanted to use his AWA to use Electrocution to switch the creeps while he was finishing off the creeps.
BDD was glad that he had saved some skill points. At that moment, he clicked on Q [Overload] and stood behind the long-range creeps, finishing off one of the creeps with a skill from afar.
Seeing that, Lin Yan resentfully gave up.
Nevertheless, when the three long-range creeps were reduced to critical health, he went forward again, wanting to repeat his previous maneuver.
Who knew that BDD did not fall for his trick at all. He used [Overload], which had a casting distance of a thousand yards, to finish off the creeps from afar. He did not give him a chance to switch the creeps at all!
Lin Yan frowned. Looking at Ryze's wretched appearance at the back, he could not help but feel angry.
'This Ryze is so steady that it's disgusting!'
At that moment, Liu Zilang even suspected that he was playing against a steady stick.
Nevertheless, Lin Yan thought about it from another perspective. It was not a loss for him to drag on a hero like Ryze, who needed a lot of growth, and not finish off the creeps.
"What's going on between the two mid laners?"
The caster's camera cut to the mid lane. Doll, who did not know what was going on, started shouting again. "They're missing too many creeps!"
At that moment, both mid laners had the same number of creeps, which was 2!
This meant that they had missed more than half of the creeps!
The spectators were baffled too. The caster did not show them the mid lane earlier, hence they had no idea what happened between BDD and Lin Yan.
"How helpful!"
"It's ridiculous that both of them missed their creeps."
"The health points of both mid laners are quite healthy. Looks like they haven't swapped their creeps. Could they really have missed their creeps?"
"Looking at the first wave of creeps, I think I can do it too. It's just two creeps, as long as I have hands."
"As long as I have hands?
You can't even use your hands and feet! "
"The second wave of creeps has reached the line. Brother Ran has started to push forward." Mille took a glance. "I think he's going to swap his health with Ryze again?"
Despite that, he still did not have a chance. After Lin Ran leveled up, he tried to force his way forward. However, BDD seemed to have borrowed a tortoise's shell from Little Rascal as he shrunk himself inside and refused to change his blood.
Lin Yan could not do anything to his opponent. He could use [Phantom Footprints] to close the distance, then use [Mark of Malice] to deplete his health. However, the mana consumption was too high and he could not trigger the additional damage from Mark of Malice.
There was no reason for him to swap his health.
Lin Yan gave up on the idea of swapping his health to suppress his opponent. Since he could not break through the middle lane, he had to find another way out.
"Qian Jue's first mark has been refreshed!"
As Doll explained, the Wolf Spirit Mark appeared on the minimap at the River Crab!
"This isn't a good position. Mongoose is still in the bottom half of the map, it'll be hard for him to get there!" Mille clicked his tongue. He could only say that he was unlucky.
The Level 2 Little Temptress did not have much of an advantage over Ryze. On the other hand, the top lane Khan's Orloy had completely taken control of the line.
Under such circumstances, Mongoose could not snatch the River Crab and could only give up the mark.
Lin Yan moved slightly downwards. When he saw that Qian Jue's mark at the top of the River Crab had disappeared, he knew that Little Peanut had killed the marked monster ten seconds ago.
He took a look at the time stamp at the top right corner and sped up. At that moment, the third wave of minions had arrived at the middle lane. Lin Yan did not hesitate to use the minions on the cannon's body, he even used his W [Phantom Perplexing Track].
Naturally, BDD would not let go of this opportunity. Taking advantage of Lin Yan's jump, he used a set of QAE to trigger Phase Charge.
However, Lin Yan activated Phantom Perplexing Track to return to his starting position and evaded another round of Overload.
BDD did not continue to chase after him. Without leveling up to Level 3, he could not fight with Lin Yan while fighting against a wave of Cannon Soldiers.
"This time, Brother Ran sacrificed his health points. However, by clearing the middle lane of minions, he'll be able to take the lead and move away!"
Lin Yan drank a health potion, then turned around and moved to the top half of the map.
"Wang Hu, hold onto Retribution, Little Temptress is coming for you!"
BDD was trapped by the minions and could not move away from the bottom of the tower. He could only send this message to Little Peanut.
"I know …" Little Peanut was a little nervous. Since he was a solo player, his farming speed was not considered fast. Furthermore, he had taken some time to eat the river crab with an imprint. As a result, he had just arrived at YM's red buff camp.
"Little Peanut isn't farming. He's crouching in the bushes in the camp, planning to catch Little Temptress to buff her!"
Lin Yan had planted an accessory eye in the bushes in advance, so he was not surprised to see Little Peanut crouching there.
It would be abnormal if the Nanqiang still dared to farm at this time.
"Brother Ran's Q [Mark of Malice] is on the Nanqiang, but he's not using the other two skills …"
Mark of Malice had a duration of 3.5 seconds. Lin Yan was not in a hurry at all. Instead, he closed the distance between himself and Little Peanut.
Knowing that he could not stay where he was, Little Peanut raised his shotgun and hit Lin Yan. At the same time, he threw out Q [End of the Road] and slid to the side to move.
Graves' AQE combo was extremely smooth in his hands, and Lin Yan's HP dropped another chunk in a split second.
"The Nanqiang has used his displacement skill. Brother Ran directly used [Phantom Perplexing Track] to step on him and hit him with an imprint to lower his HP!"
Before Mille could say anything, he saw the special effect of Phantom Chains appear on the Nanqiang!
"Brother Ran is using an EW combo!" He immediately corrected himself. "The Nanqiang can't react at all!"
The raising of the Phantom Chains was hidden in Phantom Perplexing Track. Before Little Peanut could see the movement clearly, he was already chained up!
The chain had a binding radius of 865 yards. Even if he used [Flash], he could not dodge it!
"The Nanqiang's Punishment is on the red buff, he recovered a lot of HP!"
After Lin Yan used the binding damage of the Phantom Chains, he continued to follow Little Peanut.
Peanut was extremely irritated. He had already used Punishment, but Little Peanut still wanted to tail him?
Although Little Temptress had already used all her skills, he still didn't dare to farm in front of Lin Yan — in order to wait for Lin Yan in the jungle, the Pure Man buff he had stacked had already disappeared.
Without the buff from the extra armor, Little Temptress's basic attack couldn't be said to be completely harmless.
Especially with the help of the red buff next to him.
"Little Peanut can only avoid the wild monsters and reset the red buff's aggro!" Doll was overjoyed. "This way, his farming speed will be delayed for a very long time!"
In order to recover his HP, Peanut had used a Punishment for nothing. Coupled with the fact that he had crouched in the grass earlier, it was already 3 minutes and 15 seconds before he finished using the red buff.
He frowned. If he finished farming the YM stone beetles and beaked birds, it would definitely exceed the time he had originally planned.
"Baocheng, I've done you a big favor …" Little Peanut cleared his throat and said.
"No problem, I'll get a Goddess' Tear later. When I come back, I'll just suppress him!" BDD hurriedly promised his teammate.
Although Little Peanut did not gain the upper hand when he crouched in the jungle just now, he had delayed Lin Yan quite a bit. He even let Lin Yan consume a layer of Decay Potion.
This bought BDD a lot of time to develop.
Now, as long as he got rid of the sixth wave of Artillery Minions, he could go home and buy a Goddess' Tear. Then, he could push Little Temptress's minions without restraint.
After Lin Yan returned to the middle lane, he continued to push the minions. One by one, he used the 10-second cooldown Soldier Purifier.
When the sixth wave of minions arrived, Lin Yan used his last Soldier Purifier to eliminate the Artillery Minions. Then, he used a combination of normal attacks and skills to push the minions over.
However, he was hit by Ryze again, so he had less than half of his HP left.
"Brother Ran is trying to roam again … But this time, there's Mongoose behind him!" Mille's voice was loud and clear.
Since KZ did not have the upper hand in the early stages, they were unable to restrict Mongoose's farming. Phyllostachys Pubescens had leveled up to level 4 after clearing all six groups of monsters. He was preparing to defend his own jungle with Lin Yan.
Lin Yan was very certain of Little Peanut's position. Previously, Red Rice had given them a detailed review of Little Peanut's farming route. Every time he farmed Stone Beetles or Beaked Birds' camps, there would be Artillery Minions nearby.
Previously, he had harassed Little Peanut for such a long time and even forced him to use Retribution. Nanqiang's farming speed would undoubtedly be slower than during the group competition.
If they went to YM's Beaked Birds' camp now, they would definitely catch them in the act!
"Ahhh …" KZ's head coach Hiari couldn't help cursing in a low voice when he saw Tricksy and Qian Jue's movements from God's perspective. "Wang Hu, hurry up and run!"
When Little Peanut saw how fast Lin Yan was pushing the line, he had a rough guess. When he had farmed Beaked Birds, he had specially placed an accessory eye outside the wall. When he had seen Lin Yan approach, he had wanted to escape.
"Peanut is controlling the Nanqiang, and he still wants to run." Doll didn't hide his inner smugness. "But he's underestimating Tricksy and Qian Jue's pursuit ability!"
Lin Yan raised his hand and handed over the Phantom Chain. The next instant, he flashed forward and swiftly chained Little Peanut with an E-Flash!
Relying on the Flash, the Phantom Chain's range was instantly extended by 400 yards. Peanut hadn't expected Lin Yan to be so decisive!
Amidst the waves of applause from below the stage, Mongoose followed closely behind. He flashed and activated Horizontal Fear to bite down on the slow-moving Nanqiang. The arrow in his hand was merciless as it shot at Peanut!
"Counterattack!" BDD loudly commanded his teammates in the team voice chat. "I'll be there soon, kill Tricksy!"
When Little Peanut saw the Phantom Chain on him, he realized that he couldn't escape.
Hearing BDD's command, Tricksy, who was under the smokescreen, immediately shot at Lin Yan with her shotgun.
"Desperate Situation has activated Tricksy's passive ability!"
Catoptric Deflection provided Lefran with one second of invisibility. Lin Yan took advantage of this time to throw Q's Mark of Malice onto the Nanqiang. The Phantom Chain's second round of damage triggered the mark!
When the electrocution was triggered, the Nanqiang's HP had dropped to 13!
Nevertheless, BDD was able to identify Lin Ran's real body when he lifted his arm to perform a normal attack.
He immediately gave the kill signal and got Little Peanut to cooperate with him.
"Ryze flashed over the river wall and joined the battle!" Doll's voice was urgent. "He cast Enfeeble on Nanqiu and wants to one-shot Tricksy!"
"Brother Ran's W stepped on the Nanqiang, then immediately returned to his original position!"
He was extremely calm as he pressed and released the ALT key with his finger. At the same time, he controlled himself and the fake body to move.
Little Peanut, who was at critical HP, still wanted to fire at Lin Ran, but the doppelganger in front of him blocked the scattershot!
"I can't hit him!!" He almost shrieked like a groundhog.
BDD clenched his teeth. It wasn't just Little Peanut, he couldn't hit Lin Yan as well!
Although the two skills of EW could hit him, most of the damage from Ryze still came from Q's Overload!
In this version of Ryze's E Spell Surge, the surge effect would only spread when the target was killed or when the E skill was used again.
In the early stages of the game, Ryze's E skill cooldown was not long, but it was still three seconds long. It was unrealistic to have two E skills!
This also meant that Overload could not rely on the surge effect to hit the fake body and hurt the real Lefran at the same time!
That damned fake body of Little Witch had been blocking in front of the real body, absorbing all the damage from Overload!
"Brother Ran drank the last Decay Potion, providing him with HP recovery and movement speed!"
As soon as Long-hair finished speaking, he realized that Little Witch did not move toward their defense tower, but stuck close to the fake body!
When Lin Yan saw that BDD had triggered Phase Rush, he knew that if he retreated down the tower now, Ryze would still catch up to him and he would even be pulled back by his opponent's movement speed.
Hence, he decided to stick close to the fake body so that Ryze could not attack him.
On the other side, Little Peanut wanted to run after using Flash, but Phyllostachys Pubescens used Q's Chaotic Arrow Dance to jump over and take away his HP!
"Ryze has to retreat. If he doesn't leave now, he'll be held back later!"
When BDD saw that Lin Yan had less than 200 HP left, he gritted his teeth helplessly.
'Why didn't you merge with the fake body?!'
When he saw Qian Jue, who had taken Nanqiang's red buff, turn around and charge toward him, he knew that he could not stay there for long. Hence, he quickly used Phase Rush's final acceleration effect to retreat!
"YM's done a one-for-one exchange!" When Mille saw that there was an additional mark on Qian Jue's body, he felt comfortable all over.
"Brother Ran's control of the fake body is too fine. He used her to block Nanqiang's normal attack and Ryze's two Overloads!" Doll was extremely excited. "Otherwise, it would've been a one-for-one exchange!"