The RNG fans took the lead in shouting, followed by the other YM supporters, creating a deafening roar of support.
Today, RNG's home stadium was filled to the brim.
The tickets sold couldn't satisfy the audience that wanted to watch the match live. Most people could only watch the match online.
The ten heroes from both sides had already bought equipment and left the spring. The two commentators took advantage of the players' time to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the two teams.
"YM has a classic multi-core lineup this round. The top laner Sword Demon, the mid laner Akali, and the bottom laner Ember have three DPS. The jungler Zhao Xin can also provide some DPS and can even team up with Lo to harass them."
Mille spoke very quickly, "RNG's side is rather simple. Troll, Shen, and Crow's battle strength isn't bad, but in the late game, it's hard to avoid a situation where their DPS is lacking. This is when Uzi needs to step up."
Doll chimed in from the side. "However, RNG's lineup isn't too bad. Their supporting points in the early and mid stages are quite strong. Moreover, Tam has a certain level of protection, which can create a good space for Uzi to attack.
"It can only be said that RNG is more suited and they're the only ones in the entire Alliance who can play like this."
In the first round of the semifinals, both sides were very restrained.
The main reason was because the level 1 teams on both sides were quite average. The ten of them stood at the entrance of the river and formed a defensive line.
The broadcast saw that neither side was planning on fighting, so they took over the data panel and listed out the runes of the ten players.
"Xiao Hu's runes have changed this round. He didn't bring the popular Phase Rush and chose to use the Sealed Secret Scroll with a stopwatch, minions, and a Time Distortion Potion!"
Normally speaking, Crow's mid laner was different from the top laner. He needed to bring Phase Rush to make up for his weakness of being too heavy and enter the game in the team fight.
This round, Xiao Hu gave up on this option and chose to use the Sealed Secret Scroll. He wanted to use his summoner skills and potions to drag down Lin Yan in the mid lane.
Since he had Troll's pillar to block the opponent in the team fight, he wasn't too worried about entering the game.
"Hao Xuan, help me catch him, then we'll go to the bottom lane together!" Cancel said to his jungler in the team voice chat.
Purely based on the lineup, RNG would help Shen on the top lane. He had stable crowd control, and his gank with Troll was quite efficient.
However, the core of this match was undoubtedly Ouze's Sunset in the bottom lane.
Cass planned to raise the Uzi. As long as Team Battle Cloud didn't die, YM would fall under their bulldozing attacks.
When he heard Xiao Hu's words, he felt that the two of them had thought of the same thing. "Sure, sure. No problem!"
Mille and Doll were still watching the game from God's perspective. They could clearly see the junglers' movements.
Xiao Tian swiped from top to bottom, while Cass swiped from bottom to top.
When Lin Yan arrived at the line, he didn't rush forward to attack. Instead, he shrank back.
After Akali's First Level Q's Cold Shadow's damage was reduced, her damage output wasn't that high.
Moreover, although Strange Stab and Swain's Q dealt damage in a cone, in terms of cast range, Cold Shadow only had five hundred yards. It was a bit behind the Crow Q's [Touch of Disenchantment]'s seven hundred yards.
When Lin Yan couldn't use the passive Hidden Dragon Seal, he didn't have any movement speed buffs, so it was easy for Xiao Hu to pull him.
He didn't want to take this risk.
Although Akali's Q's Cold Shadow had a certain recovery effect when it was released at one hundred and eighty points of energy.
But because Lin Yan didn't choose Taste of Blood for his secondary Rune and chose Fierce Impact, the recovery effect wasn't as high as he imagined.
In order to ensure the safety of the lane, Lin Yan decided to put the creeps in front of the tower to slowly replenish.
But Xiao Hu didn't have any plans of pushing the creeps. He just stood there without moving, looking like he wanted to finish off the creeps and control the creeps on his side.
Lin Yan saw this and knit his brows.
Crow was a long range early game player and if he wanted, he could take control of the creeps from Akali. Not to mention that when he moved to the back, it was clear that he was going to release the creeps.
However, Lin Ran was alarmed when he saw that the account had been canceled as well.
Casa's Troll was stronger than Phyllostachys Pubescens' Zhao Xin.
Normally speaking, the RNG mid laner should control the creeps and then help the jungler invade or catch people, helping Casa expand his jungler's advantage.
This was such a simple logic, Lin Yan didn't believe that Xiao Hu didn't know it.
In this situation, Mi De Hu wanted to release the creeps.
There was only one answer left, RNG wanted to cut him, using the mid laner to gain an early game advantage.
"The other side should be coming to catch me. Mongoose, can you take a look at me?"
Lin Yan didn't think that he could fight one against two.
He decisively chose to send someone.
"I can go mid laner." Mongoose who was farming looked at the mid laner, "But I have to eat a set of river crabs first."
Crouching in the early game was quite slow and Phyllostachys Pubescens didn't want his development to fall behind the other side.
"Then I'll push the creeps. You can eat the river crabs." Lin Yan replied.
In this fight, YM used Bladed Demon in the top lane. The level one Atokus was ridiculously weak and couldn't fight back at all. Controlling the creeps was a fantasy.
The bottom lane was Ember + Luo against Dusk + Tam.
Even if Ouze was strong, the level one Dusk was useless. Her hands were short and she didn't have a hook, so she wasn't Ember's match at all.
In other words, the YM duo could firmly control the bottom lane.
In this three lane situation, Xiao Tian could rely on the creeps in the middle and bottom lanes to eat the river crabs without any difficulty.
Phyllostachys Pubescens thought so too.
He didn't want to have a 1v1 with Casa in the jungle. After all, Zhao Xin couldn't gain an advantage against Troll.
In the current version, Zhao Xin could only use Phase Rush to make up for his early gank ability and mobility.
Troll was a strong attacker. In terms of runes, Chrysanthemum Xin was naturally at a disadvantage. Moreover, due to the characteristics of a hero, Troll had Q [Bite] to reduce Zhao Xin's attack power. His 1v1 ability was stronger.
The combination of the two made it difficult for Mongoose to face Casa alone.
Phyllostachys Pubescens was an outstanding avoidance in the jungle.
"Xiao Tian ate the river crab and then returned to his own jungle to continue farming ….." Mille worked hard to capture all the information in Summoner's Canyon, "As for Casa, he ate the river crab ….."
Although Lin Yan had control of the middle lane, Akali's range was rather short. Cancel stood behind and didn't come forward to heal at all, so he couldn't get Crow's HP for free.
When the second wave of creeps was taken down to the last long range soldier, Lin Yan went up.
After Xiao Tian ate the River Crab, he went deep into the enemy's jungle. In the middle of the RNG blue buff and the Demonic Swamp Frog camp, he had placed an accessory eye.
Seeing the empty blue buff camp, YM had a preliminary understanding of Casa's movements.
Lin Yan could tell that Casa's path was to farm blue.
Therefore, he wanted to go to the upper half of the map to be an eye and use it to detect the Troll's next move.
If he wanted the effect of the accessory eye to be better, he should have placed it deeper.
But Lin Yan didn't dare.
It wasn't that he was a coward, but it was very awkward right now.
He was only level two, so his battle strength wasn't that strong.
Now it was already two minutes and twenty nine seconds.
Lin Yan knew Casa's initial path ahead of time. Troll was farming from the bottom half of the jungle and with the help of Ouze and Xiao Ming, his farming speed was a bit faster. He estimated that Troll was about to reach level three.
If he placed his eye a bit deeper, if he met Casa, it was very likely that he would be chased to death by the level three Troll.
Therefore, Lin Yan only placed his eye on the pass that connected to the upper river outside the enemy's Razorbeak Bird camp.
He didn't directly choose to place his eye inside the F6 camp, mainly because the opponent basically wouldn't farm in this jungle in the early stages. Without Tiamat, Troll, who didn't have AoE damage, would spend a lot of time eating Razorbeak Birds.
With his eye there, he might not be able to detect Casa's position at all.
And because Jin Gong had been suppressed in the top lane, he couldn't place his eye on the triangle bush. Lin Yan was afraid that Troll would enter the river from the triangle bush in the top lane and make a big circle to launch a gank. In the end, after comprehensive consideration, he decided on this eye position.
It was just enough to see RNG's jungle and cover most of the river.
After placing his eye position, Lin Yan returned to the middle lane, just in time to freeload the experience of RNG's last long-range soldier in the second wave.
"I'm going to the middle lane right away!"
Phyllostachys Pubescens was very excited.
The speed of reaching level three in this patch was a bit faster than before, mainly because the River Crab gave the same amount of experience as a camp and it was much easier to farm.
Xiao Tian even used red and blue buffs and a River Crab, reaching level three in just two minutes and thirty five seconds.
"Come to this bush!" Lin Yan placed a mark in the bush at the bottom of the middle lane.
He was certain that RNG couldn't see here because Xiao Hu didn't move in that direction at all.
"He should be trying to catch me when I reach level three ….." Lin Yan went forward to finish him off while talking to Phyllostachys Pubescens.
Mongoose showed that he already knew this.
If Akali reached level three, it would be hard for her to die if the other side didn't control her. The Red Cloud Array's concealment effect and the E Falcon Dance's movement made her very nimble.
Phyllostachys Pubescens also felt that if Casa wanted to catch Lin Yan, he would definitely be stuck at level three.
This was RNG's best chance.
Lin Yan was still killing minions in the middle lane and Phyllostachys Pubescens kept himself outside the one thousand five hundred yard experience range, not letting himself get a share of Akali's experience.
Lin Ran successfully leveled up to Level 3 after killing all the close-combat soldiers in the cannon line.
But he still couldn't find a trace of Troll.
Even the eye that Lin Yan had placed between the RNG sharp beak bird camp and the river didn't find Casa.
"What is this situation?" Xiao Tian was a bit doubtful, "Casa really wants to catch you?
Is there a problem? "
"….. My sense of smell shouldn't be wrong." Although Lin Yan said this, there was still a bit of uncertainty in his voice.
"Then could it be that the other side noticed that I was squatting, so they gave up on gank?" Phyllostachys Pubescens gave another idea.
"It's possible." Lin Yan replied. His brows were tightly knit, not knowing what to do.
"I'm going to farm first." Xiao Tian saw that Casa didn't appear, so he quickly went to farm in his own area.
He had only killed two groups of minions with red and blue buffs, so there were still four other areas he hadn't farmed yet.
If he kept squatting in the middle lane, he would be delaying his own rhythm.
Lin Yan didn't stop him.
After all, he had the basic ability to protect himself after reaching level three, so he wasn't afraid of Troll catching him.
The minions in the middle lane were a bit bad.
In order to take control of the lane, he pushed the minions in the middle lane, but he didn't push all the minions in. It was very troublesome for Akali to eat cannon carriages.
Once the pushing slowed down, the fourth wave of minions came up, blocking the minions in front of the RNG tower.
Lin Yan had no other choice, he could only bite the bullet and continue clearing. Otherwise, he would have to control the lane and it would be very difficult for him.
Because the eye position he had placed in the top half hadn't disappeared yet, he moved a bit closer.
The middle lane was very peaceful.
His account was very stable, it seemed like he was planning on steadily growing with him until the end of time, waiting for the team battle to begin.
The fifth wave of minions had already arrived. Lin Yan saw that the close combat soldier was at critical HP and wanted to go forward to kill him.
Xie Huo subconsciously took a step back, and then suddenly took a horse stance forward, closing the distance between him and Lin Ran!
At the same time, he drank a Decay Potion and increased his movement speed!
Lin Yan realized that something was wrong and quickly moved back.
At this time, King Troll's angry roar came from his earpiece!
In the grass under the middle lane, there was a Casa holding a large club that suddenly appeared!
Doll's low voice that had been there for three minutes suddenly rose up, "Troll has activated W [Ice Sealing Domain] to move forward and E [Sky Supporting Pillar] has reached Akali!"
The moment the pillar appeared, Akali was frozen. His account pulled out a Soul Fragment and he even pulled Lin Yan a step in front of him.
"Akali has taken out the W Red Cloud Array and entered the concealment effect. Pull up after increasing your movement speed!"
But Crow had used Q [Touch of Disenchantment] to hit Akali.
Although it didn't break the concealment effect, it did provide a short period of blurred vision. They could see the outline of the Strange Thorn and its position, but they couldn't choose it. It was like using a scanning lens to see the enemy.
But this was enough.
Mi De Hu controlled Swain and E [Never Come Back] made a move!
"Brother Ran doesn't dare take the crowd control anymore. He threw a Falcon Dance back and hit his own Red Cloud Array, successfully moving back a bit!"
But there was an evil Demon's Eye that appeared on the ground behind him!
W [Empire Vision]!
"Is Brother Ran going to flash ….." Doll was a bit hesitant.
Lin Yan chose to take it head on.
He walked straight back and was hit by the Empire's Vision, which had a predictive nature. While being revealed, he also fell into a 20% slow state that lasted for 2.5 seconds.
"Troll has chased forward and AQA has released a strong attack. Brother Ran only has two bars of HP left!"
Some of the YM fans under the stage began to scream in a low voice.
But Lin Yan drank a HP Potion and Q [Cold Shadow] slowed down the two of them. Then he used the speed boost to move back a step.
When Troll continued to chase forward, Akali suddenly rolled forward and pulled away from the RNG midlaner!
"Second Falcon Dance, Brother Ran has returned to the Red Cloud Array!"
Akali passed through the Hidden Dragon Seal in her hand and waved her scythe as she ran down!
The RNG midlaner couldn't reach her!
The YM fans in the audience let out a sigh of relief, feeling like they had come back to life.
"Cancel and Casa used all their skills, but they still couldn't kill Akali!" Mille couldn't help feeling emotional, "Brother Ran really is steady, he didn't even flash!"
"His damage calculations are too accurate." Doll directly bragged, "Brother Ran knew that the two midlaners couldn't kill him, so he saved his skills."
But in the RNG team's voice chat, there wasn't a trace of depression.
"We've earned it, we've earned it!" Casa's expression was excited.
Xiaohu's lips curled into a smile as well.
They didn't want to kill Lin Yan in this wave, it couldn't be better if they could force him to flash. If it really didn't work, they could use a buff to force him back.
They had already achieved their goal.
Lin Yan gave a tsk sound and hid in a safe place to return to the city.
This wave wasn't because he wasn't careful.
It was because the enemy was too cunning.
Casa's gank was 3 minutes and 03 seconds.
This was very subtle.
Normally speaking, junglers' speed was between 2 minutes and 33 seconds to 2 minutes and 40 seconds.
The next ten seconds was the peak time for junglers to gank in most versions.
If there wasn't a chance, junglers would choose to clear their own jungle and reach level 4 before catching people or returning to the city to resupply.
If they didn't eat river crabs and only cleared six groups of monsters, with the current version's slow junglers, it would take 3 minutes and 20 seconds for a single Judgement to finish.
Five groups of monsters and river crabs were around the same speed.
In other words, a level 4 jungler would take about three and a half minutes to reach the lane and launch a surprise attack in the current version.
Lin Yan endured the ten seconds of gank after speed three. He originally thought that Casa would wait for three and a half minutes before coming to the middle lane, but he didn't expect his opponent to be half a minute early.
Lin Yan pressed the data panel and found that Casa's last hit count was 16.
This meant that Troll had only cleared four groups of monsters.
This was completely a well-planned scheme.
It had caught Lin Yan off guard.
It could only be said that Casa's control of the early game was very good. He knew when the players would let down their guard, and he seized this opportunity to gain an advantage for himself and his team.
Lin Yan was also very helpless. Because the RNG jungler had already pushed the fifth wave of minions to his tower, he could only give up the teleport.
Otherwise, this wave of minions without a cannon would quickly be wiped out by the defense tower.
"Both sides have quieted down and calmed down for the time being …"
Doll looked at the two teams that were still developing. "Xiao Tian didn't stay idle just now. He ran to the top lane to help catch a wave of letme and sent the opponent back to the city, relieving Jin Gong of the pressure!"
RNG's attacks came one after another, and it wasn't over yet.
The time reached 5 minutes and 50 seconds.
"Prepare to freeze your hands, prepare to freeze your hands!"
In Ouze's anxious voice, Casa's Troll had already arrived at the bottom lane and was ready to make the next Eye of Truth in the triangular grass.
Then he blocked YM's accessory eye.
Originally, YM's duo was still trying to suppress RNG's bottom lane when they realized that the triangular grass vision had suddenly disappeared. They also saw Troll's figure and hurriedly wanted to retreat.
At this moment, the Eye of Truth in the triangular grass lit up with a scarlet teleport whirlpool!
"Crow from the middle lane!"
Doll blurted out.
"At the same time, letme is running down the tower, trying to give support with a big move!"
Mille's brain quickly turned, "RNG wants to make a TP difference. They want to use the information that Akali was sent out and roll their advantage to the bottom lane!"
Jack and Liu Qingsong's current position wasn't good, RNG's mid lane had already formed a pincer!
"Sell me if you can't do it!" Jack shouted in the team voice chat.
It was hard for him to run, but Liu Qingsong's Rollo was still quite nimble.
"Don't, don't, don't, we can fight this wave!"
Lin Yan saw that Phyllostachys Pubescens was in the bottom lane and quickly roared out, "Jin Gong, watch over him, don't let him come down!"
Xiba's players all agreed.
Because Xiao Tian had caught the top lane, letme had returned to the city to replenish, so he had a healthy amount of health right now.
Yan Junze didn't want to return to the city and use a big move to help the bottom lane. Returning to the city twice would waste too much time and it would clearly reveal his intentions. His condition was so good and he had to B back to the city in such a short period of time, it definitely wouldn't be a good thing.
Therefore, he chose to retreat to a safe position to use a big move.
But this gave Jin Gong a chance to interrupt.
"Sword Demon has activated his big move and is moving forward. Q1E with Flash, interrupting Shen's big move from a long distance!"
Doll saw the entire process from the top lane camera.
In the middle lane, Cancel was the same as letme, hiding under the tower to give up the teleport.
But he was prepared ahead of time. He was very far away from Akali and there was a minion between the two of them.
Lin Ran switched to his screen and glanced at the bottom lane. He judged that his side had the upper hand in the battle.
Therefore, he didn't hesitate as he jumped forward, jumping over the minion between him and Crow.
Then he threw out an E Falcon Dance!
It accurately hit Swain from the extreme distance!
This couldn't interrupt the teleport. Crow ended the teleport and went to the bottom lane.
But Lin Yan's Akali also charged into the battlefield!
"Second Falcon Dance!" Doll's voice was sharp, "Big brother Ran is following!"
No matter where the other side was, as long as they were marked by the Falcon Dance, Akali could follow!
The Absurd Thorn passed through the river and quickly headed to the bottom lane!