Lin Yan's rune configuration caused an uproar in the Busan Convention and Exhibition Center!
What followed was a rustling sound.
The audience in the stands were discussing in low voices. After a brief moment of surprise, Mille realized that Lin Yan did not make a mistake. He began to think about the feasibility of this rune.
"Aftershock … I think it will be used to deal with Swords Maiden and Yasso. After all, these two heroes need to deal damage at the front. The increased double resistance will make Brother Ran very tanky. It's unlikely that he will be killed by Erilya's set of skills." He sorted out his thoughts. "But it will be less mobile. Without Phase Rush, Ryze will be very cumbersome. It may be a little troublesome in a team battle."
At this time, the director also reacted and showed the bonus data of Aftershock.
"In version 8.2, Aftershock has undergone a large-scale change. The increased armor and magic resistance when triggered is no longer linked to the player's resistance. Instead, it directly increases both resistance by 70-120 points according to the player's level!" Doll hissed softly.
Only then did he know the specific value of Aftershock.
After all, this rune was not so popular in the professional arena. Tank top laners were basically extinct now. Those who used Aftershock were basically the hard support. Doll only knew that it was tanky, but he did not know how tanky it was.
"This Aftershock change in version 8.2 is very suitable for the Brittle to carry!"
The original increase was a percentage of double resistance, which was not good for the Brittle. After all, they would not choose too much resistance equipment. The double resistance increase from Aftershock was too low.
But now that it was a fixed value, the Brittle had room to carry Aftershock.
However, Mille did not dare to say too much. It was the first time he saw Aftershock Ryze in a professional arena. He did not know how effective it would be.
"Let's see how Brother Ran performs in this game …"
The match-up period had begun.
Both sides' midlaners followed the minions to the line. Caps shrank to the side of the ranged soldier and stayed motionless. He always kept a safe distance from Lin Yan's Ryze to prevent the opponent from attacking him.
Unlike the top laner Bwipo, Cap had a deep understanding of Erilya.
The midlaner Swords Maiden was in the early stage of the game. He could not let Lin Yan's normal attack hit him.
Once he received a normal attack, Ryze would definitely attract the aggro of the FNC soldiers and suffer a wave of focused fire.
At that time, the FNC soldiers would attack Lin Yan while the YM soldiers would continue to attack the FNC soldiers. This would increase the gap between the status of the two armies.
More importantly, it would cause the health of the melee soldiers to be uneven.
Previously, when the minions had just arrived in the middle lane, without any interference from the heroes outside, the minions had their own roles. They would not focus their fire on one of the enemy's minions. Instead, they would look for targets nearby and deal damage evenly. The three melee minions would be reduced to critical health at almost the same time.
However, if Ryze attracted the aggro of the minions, it would pull the minions' position. Once he got rid of the aggro, the FNC minions would then find the nearest YM minions to attack.
This would destroy the damage creation model of rain and dew, causing a certain YM melee soldier to be the first to be focused and reduced to critical HP.
In other words, the three YM melee soldiers would not fall to critical HP at the same time.
The reason why Erilya was so strong in the Level One matchup was because she could use her Q [Blade Impact] to finish off all three melee soldiers when they were at critical HP. Then, she would Q to the opponent's hero for a melee fight.
With the four stacks of [Ionian Zeal] passive, Swordsister's strength was definitely one of the best among the Level One heroes.
That was why Caps tried their best to avoid being hit by Lin Yan's normal attack at the beginning of the game. Once the aggro of the minions was pulled, the three YM melee soldiers would fall to critical HP at different times. Then, Swordsister's first strong point in the matchup would be wiped out.
At first, Lin Yan wanted to go up and hit him, but he realized that his opponent was consciously avoiding him. Every time he took a step forward, he would retreat, not giving him a chance at all.
Lin Yan had no choice but to give up.
If he went any further, he would plunge into the midst of the FNC minions. If Caps forcefully used a [Blade Impact] on him, he would lose too much HP.
He steadily attacked the melee soldiers with his normal attack and tried to push the line as quickly as possible.
It looked like he had no intention of hoarding lines into the tower to create a push back.
Caps was relieved to let the minions in.
As for Lin Yan, he took advantage of the gap between the minions under the tower and ran down to the FNC jungle. He set up an eye on the blue buff camp through the wall.
One of the reasons why he didn't do what he did in most long ranged versus short ranged matchups, where he waited for Swordsister to finish him off in front of the tower, was because he had to hurry to the FNC jungle to make this eye accessory.
According to the information provided by Jack's [Ten Thousand Arrows] that he had scouted in his own red zone before going online, Broxah had started farming from YM's red buff.
This way, Lin Yan set his eye on the blue buff below the FNC jungle. This eye could almost lock down Broxah's path in the early game, which was very important for the team.
Another reason was that it was best not to hoard lines in the early game against Swordsister.
Against most melee heroes, this method could be used. Once he entered the tower, he wouldn't have to worry about the opponent rushing up to him. After all, he had minions to help him. It was equivalent to two against one, so there was no way he would lose.
However, Irelia was an exception.
She used Q [Blade Impact] to quickly kill minions with low HP. At the same time, she refreshed the cooldown of her skills and stacked passive stacks. She also had a health recovery effect.
The minions were just toys for Swordsister. They weren't a threat at all.
Before Lin Yan leveled up his equipment, he didn't dare to brazenly go to the tower to kill Swordsister.
After Caps released his line into the tower, he deliberately waited until the tower's cannons were about to hit the minions with low HP. Only then did he use his Q [Blade Impact].
This way, he could delay the minions under the tower to the greatest extent.
Because Lin Yan's Level 1 Ryze's ability to push the minions was very poor, he could only use normal attacks to push the minions. As a result, when he pushed the line into the tower, there were only seven seconds left before the second wave of minions arrived.
Caps delayed the minions under the tower, although the minions would still reset near the center of the canyon …
However, when the second wave of minions arrived, the stacks of his passive [Ionian's Zeal] had not disappeared!
This was the key!
Seven minions in a solo lane had leveled up to Level 2. As long as Swordsister's passive could be maintained, there was a high chance that she could snatch Level 2!
Erilia snatched Level 2, and the minions were in the middle of the lane. If she played it well, she could force the Teleportation Hero to use Flash.
Lin Yan went to take a look. His return speed was a little slower, and when he saw Swordsister's passive approach, his Level 1 Ryze didn't dare to fight head-on. He could only retreat.
Caps used his details to successfully counter Lin Yan and took the initiative in this wave of minions.
After snatching Level 2, he continued to move forward, not allowing Lin Yan to threaten the minions. He tried to delay Ryze's leveling up to Level 2 as much as possible.
Lin Yan accepted it calmly.
Ryze didn't have much combat power before Level 3 anyway. It was not a bad idea to let the minions develop.
When Caps saw this, he immediately had an idea and began to look for other opportunities.
"I'll take a look and catch Olaf later," Cap said quickly as he communicated with his teammates. "Bwipo, don't let Sword Magician leave the lane. I can kill the enemy's jungler alone!"
Just like how Lin Yan knew Broxah's jungler route, Caps also knew that Mongoose started from the red buff in the top half of FNC through YM's Level 1 Team Design.
Since Broxah's Wine Barrel's location had been guessed, Mongoose's Olaf shouldn't be at risk.
Under normal circumstances, in order to increase his farming efficiency, Olaf would choose to control his health and make full use of the passive [Berserker's Rage] to increase his attack speed. He would quickly clear the jungle and buy time for himself to do things.
Caps felt that once he reached Level 3, if he caught Olaf in the jungle with low health, he could easily take him down alone.
"No problem, don't worry about it," Bwipo replied to his teammates.
He planned to bait Jin Gong by selling his health. He wanted to give his opponent the upper hand and drag Sword Magician down.
Caps started his plan.
He started by creating a slow push.
He knew that Lin Yan had a teleport. If he didn't want his opponent to be unable to support him, he would have to gather a bunch of minions and push them to the bottom of the tower. This way, he would be affected by the wave of minions and the cost of teleporting support would be very high.
Lin Yan had just reached Level 2. He didn't move forward when he saw the stacked passives on Swords Maiden.
Although he had the help of Aftershock and wasn't afraid of a health swap, the problem was that once Swords Maiden got close to him, Lin Yan wouldn't have any countermeasures.
At this time, Ryze's damage output was still too low.
He stood behind the minions and realized that Caps wasn't in a hurry to push. Instead, they were taking it slow. They first attacked the ranged minions and let YM's melee minions, who had higher health, block the minions.
This was obviously a slow push.
Lin Yan quickly realized how Caps' actions would affect the movement of the minions.
But this was just a facade.
For a qualified mid laner, the minions were a tool.
During the laning phase, all movements were closely related to the minions.
He wanted to break through this facade and see what Cap's true intentions were.
Swords Maiden against Ryze, what was the point of a slow push?
Lin Yan didn't even think about it and tacitly crossed out the option of consuming health to swap under the tower.
How could a melee player like Erilya take advantage of Ryze's last hit to swap health?
Stop kidding.
It wasn't realistic to go back to the city to resupply. Swords Maiden's health was close to full and she had plenty of mana. There was no need for her to go back to the spring.
Among the remaining possibilities … there were two that had a high probability.
One was that she wanted to go over the tower.
Because Cap had gathered a lot of minions, Lin Yan didn't have a lot of minions. He hadn't reached Level 3 yet. If FNC's mid laner and jungler both reached Level 3 and wanted to go over the tower, it wasn't impossible.
With Swords Maiden and Wine Barrel working together, even if Lin Yan used EW to immobilize one of them, it would only take 1.5 seconds. He would be able to escape after taking two hits from the tower and wouldn't be able to swap out the other party.
And so far, Lin Yan still hadn't seen Broxah's Wine Barrel in FNC's blue zone.
This made him a little nervous.
"Jack, can you take a look at our F6 for me?"
Lin Yan urged his Edisi as he moved upward, trying to avoid Wine Barrel that might appear below him.
Shiba Inu had just finished off the three melee minions in the second wave of the bottom lane and had just reached Level 2.
He had saved a skill point, so when he heard Lin Yan's words, he immediately learned E [Eagle Soars the Sky] and shot toward his own Beak Bird camp.
Along the way, he found Broxah's tracks and found that he was fighting F6 and pulling a few birds down the river.
Lin Yan knew that the opponent's beer man was about to clear the bottom half of YM, and Eagle Soars the Sky could temporarily provide him with five seconds of vision. During this time, he didn't have to worry about Broxah quietly coming over to cooperate with Cap to kill him.
This time, he was finally at ease. Lin Ran's movements were no longer restrained.
At the same time, he rejected another possibility.
Erilia had gathered her troops and entered the tower. Apart from planning to go over the tower and kill him, the other possibility was that she would wander to other areas on the map to provide support.
Lin Yan switched the screen to look at the two sides and found that his teammates were in good shape.
This basically locked onto Caps' idea.
"Mongoose, pay attention. Swords Maiden is probably going to look for you," he reminded him.
Phyllostachys Pubescens signaled that he understood.
He was killing FNC's Beak Birds. Since he didn't have any teammates to help him and hadn't used Retribution, his speed wasn't that fast.
After years of cooperation, Mongoose trusted Lin Yan's judgment.
The bird had less than 400 HP left, which was slightly lower than Retribution's kill line.
However, he still used it to recover a large chunk of his HP.
Then he hid in the grass between FNC's red buff camp and the Dragon pit, ready to wait.
Cap didn't think too much. He slowly pushed the third wave of minions into the tower, then turned and walked down.
When the vision provided by the YM soldier's corpse disappeared, he turned back and went up.
"Caps is trying to trick YM in this way." Doll saw Cap's movement through the caster's camera. "He's using a diversion tactic, but his real goal is to go up!"
Mille noticed that Olaf's position wasn't right. He immediately raised his voice. "But Mongoose is prepared. He's waiting there for Swords Maiden to come!"
Cap didn't want to alert the enemy, so he deliberately didn't look into his own Beak Bird camp through the wall.
His timing was perfect. Generally speaking, Olaf, who was alone and didn't need Retribution, should have just finished killing the Beak Birds. A Berserker without a blue buff would lack cooldown and mana regeneration, so his farming speed wouldn't be as fast as it could be.
There would be no monsters for Mongoose to recover his HP, so Olaf, who wasn't in his best condition, would definitely not be able to beat him!
As Erilia got closer and closer to the Beak Bird camp, Cap became more and more delighted.
In his opinion, the first blood was already in his bag!
However, from God's perspective, Caps' approach could only be described as smart!
When he reached the pass between F6 and the river, Caps finally found that the Beak Bird camp was empty. Not only were the birds gone, even Olaf had disappeared without a trace!
What was going on?
A hint of confusion flashed across Caps' mind.
The next moment, a sharp axe flew out from the bushes in front of him!
Olaf had come out from the bushes!
Little Cap was startled. He cursed in Danish and subconsciously wanted to dodge.
However, the pass he was in was very narrow, so there was not much room to dodge.
"The axe hit!"
As Doll shouted, Caps didn't hesitate to use his Blink!
He quickly distanced himself from Phyllostachys Pubescens, not giving Olaf a chance to stick to him and attack.
"Wow …" Mille's voice was full of regret. "Swords Maiden played too well, didn't she?"
"If she used her Blink a little more tightly, Mongoose could have caught up and slashed all the way, and he could have gotten the first blood!"
Doll calmed down when he saw that the two sides separated immediately after the clash. "But here's the problem … How did Mongoose know that Caps was coming for him?"
"Olaf used Retribution to recover his health when he fought F6, and then deliberately crouched in the bushes." Mille recalled the details that were revealed in the caster's perspective. "Someone in the team must have warned him."
"Amazing …" He exclaimed.
Caps' diversion tactic was very effective. After all, the jungler Wine Barrel was in the bottom half of the map, and Swords Maiden's movement looked like she was going to cooperate with Beer Barrel for a 4v2.
However, Lin Yan didn't fall for it.
At that time, the minions in the bottom lane were still in front of the YM tower, and Liu Qingsong was still holding a Holy Shield that could eat the turrets, so it was impossible for FNC to cross the tower.
Besides, it would take Swords Maiden at least 13 seconds to rush to the bottom lane without shoes.
At that time, Lin Yan would have already cleared the minions under the tower. If Caps dared to cross the tower, he would just have to teleport out, and he wouldn't lose anything.
"Now that I don't have Blink, Swords Maiden's life is going to be more difficult!"
Lin Yan didn't let go of this opportunity. He began to use his skills to quickly push the minions and pin Swords Maiden under the tower.
Caps was furious, but he didn't dare to move forward or Blink, for fear of being caught by Mongoose.
If Lin Yan used EW to pin him down, and together with Olaf's damage output, Arellia would be killed before she could even resist.
"Jin Gong in the top lane has leveled up his Dark-Kin Blade. Yasso is no match for him!"
From now on, until Yasso used Blood Hand, Yasso would be in a strong position. Bwipo had to endure until he reached Level 6, and only then could he coordinate with the jungler Wine Barrel to finish the kill.
Lin Yan finished pushing the sixth wave of minions, rose to Level 5, and returned to the city to synthesize the Blue Crystal into Goddess' Tear. He then bought Straw Sandals and True Eye, and walked back to the line.
Caps also returned to the city to replenish his supplies after he finished his Tower Sword. He couldn't afford to use Yaoguang, so he could only buy a longsword, Straw Sandals, and True Eye.
He couldn't guarantee that he would be one step ahead of Lin Yan to set the pace.
But he definitely couldn't fall behind.
When Ryze went to support, Caps thought that he had to have a Teleport, or his teammates wouldn't be able to withstand the pressure.
"Brother Ran pushed the minions back to the city first, so he had to rush back to the middle lane first. He used two E's to spread the effect of Surge, and then used Overload to instantly reduce the minions' HP!"
With the support of mana, Ryze cleared the minions very quickly, and effortlessly pushed all the minions under Swords Maiden's tower.
Including the time taken to return to the city, it took about 35 seconds to replenish the minions. When Lin Yan finished pushing the minions, the eighth wave of minions was about to arrive. Caps, who was about to reach the tower, was anxious.
He didn't want the minions to be stuck under his own tower.
That would form Lin Yan's push-back line.
Once the push-back line was formed, the minions would slowly move toward YM's central tower.
If Mongoose's Olaf took the opportunity to catch them, Swords Maiden would be in great danger without her Blink.
However, Caps didn't have the right to use the Teleport, so he had to pay a certain price if he wanted to save the Teleport.
Even if he used all his skills and quickly killed the minions under the tower, it wouldn't change the fact that YM's eighth wave of minions would go straight in.
The minions were just under the tower, and the push-back line was about to be formed.
Caps had no choice but to push the minions over.
However, just as the minions were about to enter YM's defense tower, Lin Yan suddenly took two steps forward and stood about 200 yards away from the turret's shooting range. He used his body to block the minions, and only allowed the melee minions to enter the tower's shooting range. The ranged minions were all blocked outside the tower.
"This line can be controlled." Mille's eyes lit up. "Brother Ran's timing is perfect!"
It was currently the eighth wave of minions, and Swords Maiden had missed two minions' EXP. In order to reach Level 6, she would have to kill the first three melee minions of the ninth wave of minions.
In other words, Arellia was currently only Level 5.
Without her ultimate skills and Blink, Swords Maiden's chances of gaining EXP were quite low even if she roamed around while Lin Yan was blocking the line.
Caps frowned slightly in annoyance.
Lin Yan's timing was not only perfect, but he also controlled the distance perfectly.
He stood about 200 yards away from the turret's shooting range.
This happened to be the range of Arellia's normal attack.
Caps could take advantage of the moment when the turret was attacking the minions. He could step forward and attack them before turning around to leave. Blocking the turret's attack interval would be a waste of HP.
However, Swords Maiden's attack speed was not fast, and her movements when she raised her sword were quite obvious.
If Lin Yan blocked his movement and EW crowd-controlled him, he would be in big trouble. He would have to take two hits from the turret and take a round of damage from Ryze. Swapping for HP would be a huge loss.
Caps did not dare to make a move for fear of breaking the vases.
From the moment he tried to grab Mongoose and was forced to dodge, Cap's heart was filled with anger.
Now, he had nowhere to cast it.
He could only stand at the back and watch as Lin Yan slowly killed the minions with his body blocking the line.
Fortunately, Ryze could only block three ranged minions. In this short lane, it was impossible for the minions to stay in the same position for a long time.
In less than a minute, Ryze had pushed a large number of minions over.
Among them were the turrets of the ninth wave of minions.
The slow-moving minions entered Caps' turret, and Lin Yan's Ryze disappeared from his sight.
"Careful, Ryze has gone offline!" Cap's hurriedly sent a message to his teammates.
However, YM's attack was so fierce that FNC had no time to defend themselves.
"Mongoose is rushing to the bottom lane. Get ready to attack FNC's duo!"
Phyllostachys Pubescens appeared behind FNC's bottom turret and inserted a False Eye into the turret.
Then, the teleport whirlpool lit up!
"Teleport from Brother Ran!"
Mille yelled. "Wine Barrel is in the top lane killing his second wave of minions. He can't defend in time!"
Broxah saw that his top laner was having a hard time. Coincidentally, Bwipo Yasuo had reached level 6, so he wanted to give Jin Gong some pressure.
After all, he had Blink. He would start with Predator and use Flash to control Swordfiend. Yasso would be able to kill him easily.
With such a high success rate in the top lane, Broxah naturally would not stay in the bottom lane.
This gave Lin Yan and his teammates the opportunity to attack.
"Caps can't make it here yet. He's only level five!" Doll was overjoyed when she saw Arielia's level on the character's status bar.
Cap's Little Hat was trying his best to kill off the minions, but YM was too fast. When Lin Yan's teleport was about to land, Cap's Little Hat had just reached level six.
"Brother Ran has landed. EW has controlled Ou Cheng's Ember, but he's been targeted by Leona from Haisan..."
FNC's defense tower dutifully fired cannons at Lin Yan.
As for Ou Cheng, he immediately handed over the purification on his body and removed the control on his body.
"Liu Qingsong blinked W [Bravely Step Forward] to Brother Ran's side. Q [Winter's Bite] hit Leona. Then, he raised the Security Door and blocked Ember's Fatal Splendor!"
Doll's surprised voice echoed in the live stream.
"Isn't Brother Ran a little too tanky?!"
After the aftershock was triggered, Lin Yan's Dual Resistance increased by more than 80 points. Coupled with the resistance provided by Boulogne's Bravely Step Forward, his Dual Resistance now exceeded 130 points.
At the six-minute mark, 130 points of Dual Resistance meant that he was invincible.
"Apart from the defense tower, the rest of the damage is like scratching an itch!"
Jack attacked from the back while Xiao Tian broke into the defense tower and kept hacking at his opponent with his axe.
"Knife Sis hasn't come down yet. Ou Cheng can't hold on any longer!"
In order to ensure that he would not be connected by YM's overly long control chain, Rekkles had specially brought Purify.
However, without Heal, he could not withstand the damage from YM's group at all.
"Brother Ran recovered from the stun effect of Leona's Q [Shield of Dawn] and detonated two layers of runes!"
Reeze instantly received a movement speed bonus and a layer of shield.
This layer of shield was exceptionally thick with the support of 130 points of Dual Resistance.
"Brother Ran took two hits from the tower. He only has half of his HP left and successfully left the range of the defense tower!"
Ou Cheng used Flash and wanted to run. Phyllostachys Pubescens flashed and followed him, killing Ember with one blow of his axe.
The YM fans in the stands let out a deafening cheer!
"Knife Sis canceled the teleportation!"
He had no choice but to cancel it.
Leona had already let go of all her control skills and had lost her ability to keep people around.
YM's group had maintained their HP quite well. He had no way of killing them even if he came down. Once Boulogne activated his passive, he might even lose his life.
Hai Sang Jiao used Flash to dodge Xiao Tian's next attack and successfully escaped to the second tower.
The caster switched the camera to the top lane at this time.
"Wine Barrel activated Predator to catch someone … Gongzi Goda used Flash and instantly distanced himself!"
Jin Gong used facts to prove that Sword Magician could also use Flash.
He successfully maintained a distance of more than 1,000 yards from Wine Barrel and did not let the opponent's Flash hit him.
FNC's jungler did not expect the Xiba team to be so stable. They used all their escape skills when they met.
Broxah had no other choice but to give up.
"Brother Ran turned back and destroyed the tower with his other teammates!"
FNC's duo had either died or escaped. They did not have the ability to defend the tower.
Lin Yan took advantage of his weakness to kill him. He planned to destroy the next tower in one go.
When the battle broke out just now, the cannon soldiers in the bottom lane had not been dealt with yet. They still had more than half of their HP left.
They could be used to tank the tower.
Lin Yan and his teammates began to demolish the tower.
"They're destroying the tower very quickly. Olaf and Ice are very efficient!"
The defense of the next tower was also on the lower side. After this wave of cannon soldiers was devoured, they spent a wave of soldiers and successfully destroyed the next tower.
"After Ou Cheng revived, he decisively ran to the middle lane. He wants to help his mid to threaten YM's middle tower!"
However, it took him half a minute to get to the top lane. When Lin Yan walked back to the top lane, the middle tower still had half of its HP left.
"Little Tian's Olaf even took the opportunity to take down a Fire Dragon … He's maxing out the resources!"
It had been close to eight minutes, and FNC still had not found a suitable opportunity.
Top laner Jin Gong was very stable now. He would not leave the tower if there was no Flash.
If Broxah forced his way through the tower, he would be able to counter Sword Magician's big move.
Moreover, he did not know Xiao Tian's exact location, so he did not dare to make a move.
The vanguard spawned on time. YM immediately gathered at the Dragon's Pit!
"We have to fight this wave. We can't give up!"
Caps felt that they could do it. After all, according to his calculations, Jin Gong's big move and Flash were still not ready.
Xiao Tian's Flash was also on cooldown.
Little Red Hat's Flash had just finished not long ago.
With Blade of the Vanguard's R, they still had the ability to fight.
Caps did not want to give up the vanguard to their opponents.
Under his command, FNC got into formation and decided to push forward.
The big move was on the verge of being triggered.