Chapter 171 “Fire at me”! Unpopular mechanism? This is a weird mechanism!
Time began to tick.

The light curtain dispersed.

The ten people in the spring moved quickly.

I just experienced the massacre of the first-level group twenty minutes ago.

ROX obviously learned its lesson in this game. Their positioning was very conventional, with everyone standing near the river. Only Kuro in the middle lane chose to stand under the tower because he was controlling Galio and responded according to the situation later.

There was no expected level one group fight.

The commentators could only discuss the lineups of both teams to pass the boring waiting time.

“This new hero, Kaiying, is not the first to appear in the competition. In fact, several players have used him in the qualifying rounds!”

“But those players all chose to transform into Red Kai, also known as Darkin Rhaast. No one used Shadow Assassin Kai Ying at all.”

“And in Kaiying’s background story”

There is a reason why Guan Zeyuan was the most popular commentator last year. He can accurately tell the background story of any hero.

Wait until the story is finished.

After a few seconds of pausing, he continued, “In the current version, the win rate after transforming into Hong Kai is extremely high. After transforming, the W skill [Blade Penetration] will provide a knock-up effect. The passive skill combined with the ultimate skill can also allow Hong Kai to have self-protection ability and continuous output in team battles.”

“A warrior hero who can fight and resist and has a self-recovery effect is indeed abnormal, but Kaiying also has a flaw, that is, he needs to fight with the enemy while maintaining his own development and absorb energy to complete the transformation as soon as possible!”

After Guan Zeyuan finished explaining the advantages and disadvantages of Hongkai.

Wawa then continued: “What about the transformation into Blue Kai? I remember that Blue Kai seems to be quite common in Rank!”

“Well, what Teacher Wawa said is right. This is one of the reasons why Kaiying’s win rate is extremely low. Although the burst damage is greatly improved after transforming into Blue Kai, the fault tolerance rate is also correspondingly reduced a lot!” Guan Zeyuan nodded and continued to analyze: “From the TOP1 lineup, we can see that Kaiying’s positioning is definitely a front-line fighter, and whether he is facing Lee Sin in the jungle or ganking in the middle lane, he can only absorb red energy and can only transform into Red Kai in the end!”

“Ah? I thought Emolove would use Blue Kai in this game!” Miller was a little disappointed after hearing this.

“There’s nothing we can do about it. Even the strongest players have to follow the meta.”

Guan Zeyuan is very confident in his own judgment.

After all, Kaiying can only transform once in a game.

There won’t be so many opportunities in a match for players to deliberately choose targets to accumulate energy. Basically, they will transform if they can before 15 minutes have passed, and will never choose to delay time just because of changes in the red/blue skill mechanism.

That would be too stupid.

not to mention.

In the current version, the strongest and most winning strategy for Kaiying is to turn red.

“The wild monsters will spawn soon. Peanut chooses to open the blue buff alone, and Emolove starts with F6?” Guan Zeyuan was curious when he saw this scene: “This choice is really surprising. Maybe Emolove’s way of clearing the jungle is Kaiying’s authentic way of playing?”

1 minutes 40 seconds.

F6, three wolves, and double BUFFs refresh at the same time.

Kaiying, who learns Q at level 1, stands at the edge of the wall in advance and uses the positioning mechanism to deal two stages of damage with the Q skill at this moment. He also cancels the stiff state so that he can directly deal subsequent normal attack damage.

at the same time.

The Lee Sin who learns W at level 1 also uses the skill in advance. Not only does he wait until the W skill cools down the moment the blue buff is refreshed, but he also gets the lifesucking effect and attack speed bonus.

The original complete picture was now adjusted by the director into a dual screen, so that the audience could see Kaiying and Lee Sin’s jungle clearing techniques at the same time.

1 minutes 55 seconds.

Kaiying used his second Q skill, moved towards the red BUFF and killed the big bird with low health. The moment he reached level 2, he learned the W skill and then released it directly, just touching the red BUFF’s body at the maximum distance.

The red BUFF that was attacked immediately walked towards Kaiying.

Wait until the W skill is released and the stiffness disappears.

The red BUFF also happened to be within Kaiying’s attack range.

the other side.

At the same time, Lee Sin walks around and attacks to pull the blue buff. After reaching level 2, he instantly learns the Q skill and releases it towards the toad.

From the audience’s perspective.

There is almost no difference in the jungle clearing efficiency between the junglers of both sides.

but.
Mingkai, who was watching the game from the audience, murmured, “Little Peanut was at least two seconds slower.”

“Not that many, only 1.5 seconds at most, but for Brother Yu, these 1.5 seconds are enough.” mlxg, who also came to watch the game in a group, gave a different answer.

“No, it’s two seconds. You forgot that after Lee Sin kills the Toad, he has to walk over and Q the three wolves. Kaiying can directly use Q to go over the wall and continue to kill the Stone Man!” Mingkai shook his head, obviously disagreeing with mlxg’s answer.

The teammates around him were confused.

I have absolutely no idea what these two are arguing about.

The difference between 1.5 seconds and 2 seconds is not that big.

There is absolutely no comparison between these two heroes.

Kaiying is efficient in clearing the jungle, but it is not easy to gank!
Among his teammates, the only one who has control is the bottom lane Alistar, and because the ADC is Xerath, even if Kaiying quickly clears the entire jungle and comes to the bottom lane, it is difficult for him to find a suitable gank opportunity.

in contrast.

Lee Sin originally clears jungle monsters alone, so it is completely acceptable for his efficiency to be slower.

The reasonable combination of ROX lineup allows Lee Sin to gank at will, and there will be no punishment even if he fails.

“Quinn’s role should be coming, right?”

Mingkai seemed to have sensed something and his eyes were already looking at the small map in the game.

At the beginning of the game, go to the river bushes to gain vision to prevent ganks.

Quinn played very aggressively when he came online.

And now.

The third wave of soldiers.

The cannon line has special significance for the top laner.

Quinn’s portrait on the minimap has overlapped with Sion’s portrait.

The director also noticed this and reluctantly turned the screen to the top lane.

The audience exclaimed in surprise when they saw it.

Wawa even shouted without hiding: “Wow! What happened? How come Sion only has half of his health left?”

“Maybe Quinn ambushed Sion during the level 1 laning?” Guan Zeyuan said uncertainly.

Originally, the director should have adjusted the time back to when the soldier just arrived on the line.

But in the screen.

Kai’s shadow flashed by like a ghost in a horror movie.

“Emolove has finished killing the Krugs. Are they going to start ganking now? Isn’t that too fast? Peanut hasn’t revealed his position yet!”

Just as Guan Zeyuan was speaking.

Kaiying used the wall-penetrating effect of his E skill to reach the river. He took two steps forward and hid in the bushes.

The anti-gank vision provided by Quinn allowed Kaiying to ensure that there were no enemy eyes nearby.

Next.

Just attack!

After waiting for a few seconds.

A signal suddenly sounded on the upper road of the small map.

Kaiying sent a reminder to his teammates that they were on the way!

Quinn, who was last hitting a minion, immediately used his E skill and kicked Sion, slowing him down and marking him. At the same time, he closed the distance between him and Sion to trigger the mark and gain a speed bonus.

As one of the top single players.

Smeb realized Duke’s intention at the first moment.

“Kaying is here!”

He yelled, his fingers rapidly tapping the keyboard.

EQ 2nd in a row!

The melee soldier in front of him was pushed out and hit Quinn, who had just landed and was unable to move.

The Q skill enters the charging state at the same time.

Quinn, who is slowed down, cannot get out of the range of this Q skill at all. Unless he uses flash, he will have to take the Q skill head-on.

In this regard.

Quinn just used AQ twice in a row to reduce Sion’s vision range.

But I already know that the opposing jungler is nearby.

Smeb was not panicked, he just faced death calmly.

1.75 seconds later.

The debuff of [Dazzling Attack] disappears.

After regaining vision, Smeb immediately looked towards the river.

But Kaiying had already arrived in front of him.

Start with a WQ combo, use normal attacks to put a red BUFF on Sion to slow him down, then walk directly into the fog of war.

Quinn, who had recovered from his stunned state, quickly followed up and killed Sion, who had little health left, with two normal attacks.

【first drop of blood! 】

After dying and being resurrected, Sion could only vent his anger on the minions and try his best to keep the line as it was to avoid completely losing control of the line after being resurrected.

“It’s so relaxing.” Wawa was stunned.

“Peanut is here!” Guan Zeyuan’s voice suddenly rose a few decibels.

After killing the three wolves, Lee Sin did not go to his own lower zone, but came to the triangle grass. One second before he landed on the ground after using his eye to pass through the wall, the eye that Quinn had placed in the grass in the river disappeared because the time was up.

The fog of war helped Lee Sin successfully cover his tracks.

He took a hit on Sion’s Q skill with the full charging time, and was attacked by several minions.

Quinn, who completed the kill, also had little health left. He was returning to the city at this time and had no idea that death was approaching!
Flash Q+punishment!

The mage soldier standing in front of Quinn was killed instantly, and [Sound Wave] successfully hit Quinn who was counting down to return to the city to browse the store.

The red light flashed wildly at the edge of the screen.

Duke quickly closed the shop and frantically pressed the E skill at his feet.

It’s a pity that it’s still a step too late.

The killing effect of Lee Sin’s second stage Q is triggered.

[ROX——Peanu killed TOP1——Duke! ]

“Nice!!!” smeb was surprised and excited: “Wanghu is so handsome!”

“Lucky, bro.”

Peanut, who successfully got the kill, still had a serious look on his face.

Only he himself knows.

It was pure luck that we were able to equalize the team’s kill count this time!
“How on earth did my idol do that? He was two seconds faster than me!”

Peanut went to the river to fight the swift crab while thinking about the problem in his mind.

Although the jungler’s golden three minutes at the beginning have ended.

But only by knowing how Kaiying managed to clear the three groups of wild monsters in the upper half so quickly could he make countermeasures at any time in the next ten minutes.

“Ayigu~ This guy is actually the same as you, Brother Yu, who is also a solo monster.” Duke scratched his head: “Sorry, Brother Yu.”

Although being killed by Peanut at this time would not affect the laning situation in the top lane, it was somewhat disadvantageous to Wang Yu.

With the kills he got in the early game, Lee Sin’s combat capability in the jungle was improved, so he was not afraid of Kaiying coming to SOLO.

Wang Yu deliberately started from the upper half to help Duke establish a laning advantage.

But he accidentally died at the hands of the opposing jungler.

What if Kaiying invades the jungle later and is killed by Lee Sin because of the 300 yuan economic difference?

The resulting chain reaction will be extremely deadly!
This made Duke feel very guilty.

“It’s a small problem. Anyway, Kaiying didn’t have much fighting power before the transformation. I won’t go to fight him.” Wang Yu smiled faintly: “But your death is not meaningless. At least it let me know the location of Wanghu.”

While talking.

Wang Yu has used the E skill to penetrate the wall and enter the red BUFF camp in the ROX jungle.

at this time.

The blind monk just walked past the middle lane after defeating the Swift Crab.

There was only a wall between the two of them.

Lee Sin never expected Kaiying to be so bold.

After clearing the red buff and using the explosive fruit to bounce into the dragon pit, Kaiying activated his E skill again and used his Q skill to move through the wall when the E skill’s duration was about to end, returning to a safe position in just a few seconds.

Although the entire process was seen clearly by all ROX members.

But they were helpless and could only send a few signals on the small map.

“Oh, our idol is so excessive!” Peanut said with a somewhat aggrieved tone.

For the jungler.

One kill in the early stage is far less beneficial than a red BUFF.

After brushing the stone beetle.

Lee Sin came to the middle lane to see if he could make some more money before returning to the city.

But it only took a few seconds.

After making sure that Clockwork gave him no chance at all, Lee Sin went straight back to the city to update his equipment.

Even though the head count is still 1:1.

It can be seen from the online situation.

TOP1 has begun to fall into a disadvantage.

Clockwork can only barely stay in the lane to last hit, and his health is just a decoration. Once he is controlled by Galio’s EW, Lee Sin can easily kill him.

The role of Xerath and Minotaur is unclear, and the gap in last-hitting has been widened by more than ten hits. It is only a matter of time before the level and economy fall behind. Quinn, who got the first blood and economy, just bought a mining knife and occasionally consumed Sion’s health in the interval between last-hitting. Apart from that, he did not do anything.

As for Kaiying, who was watched by the director from time to time, he did not make any big noise. He occasionally used the E skill to penetrate the wall to harass the enemy in the middle and top lanes to accumulate energy for transformation.

Game time is 6 minutes.

Lee Sin, who had already made a red jungle knife, cooperated with Galio and the bottom lane duo to take the first little dragon first.

offstage.

“The pace seems to have slowed down.” Mingkai frowned: “If this continues, Xiaoyu will have to wait 15 minutes before she can transform.”

“That’s normal, right? Kaiying’s transformation time is about 15 to 17 minutes. If the wind is strong, the fastest time is about 14 minutes.”

mlxg looked at Mingkai with some confusion.

He suspected that Mingkai had begun to doubt himself in his understanding of the game because he was eliminated in the quarterfinals again this year.

This question is understandable coming from the players.

But it’s hard to understand when it comes from a professional player’s mouth.

The rhythm of the game is different from Rank.

Compared to Kindred, who can intentionally control the mark refresh location.

Kaiying is undoubtedly more difficult.

after all.

You cannot remotely control enemy players.

At this point, ROX’s intentions couldn’t be more obvious.

During the laning phase, you should put some pressure on your opponent, but you should also stop in time.

The fight was stopped at a certain point, not giving Kaiying any chance to gank.

The only active Lee Sin has his ultimate, so he is now hoping that Kaiying will enter the jungle to play SOLO with him.

Just when everyone outside was worried about how TOP1 would break the deadlock.

Wang Yu has already found ROX’s weakness!
Game time is 10 minutes.

With the improvement of equipment and level.

Xerath, who was at a disadvantage in the laning phase, has gained a foothold and started to catch up with the last hits.

of course.

Xerath also did not forget what his main mission was.

Use the Q skill to replenish soldiers while doing a “lottery-style” poke to deplete the rat’s health.

With Ezreal’s skill base as a shooter.

Even if it’s Xerath.

Imp’s skill hit rate is also very high.

Basically, you can hit once every three times you use the Q skill.

It is impossible to buy the Hexdrinker just because you are laning against an APC.

Even if there is a wind girl’s shield to offset the damage.

The rat, who had little magic resistance, was quickly reduced to less than half health.

What’s even more terrible is that this wave is still pushing back the line, and the second little dragon will refresh in one minute!
The support must return to the city in advance to replenish the wards.

But GorillA knew very well that if he let Pray stay alone under the tower to farm minions, he would be 100% attacked by the opponent.

“Just open the Qing Dynasty directly.”

Looking at the pushback line composed of three waves of minions, GorillA’s sixth sense reminded him that the crisis was coming!

“Um”

Seeing this, Pray did not hesitate. He stood under the tower and decisively activated his ultimate skill and started shooting crazily.

The splash damage of [Full Firepower] successfully allowed Pray to kill most of the minions. The two of them tacitly ignored the remaining few minions with low health and entered the countdown stage of returning to the city.

can.

How could TOP1 let go of such a hard-earned opportunity so easily?

Xerath raised his hands high and entered the charged Q state.

Prejudgment?

No need!
Because for imp, he only needs to cause damage to Pray and interrupt the countdown to return to the city.

Pray also knew that his health was already limited, and he must not be hurt by Xerath’s skills before returning to the city, otherwise he would be killed instantly by Kaiying who came through the wall.

“Siba.”

Looking at the energy wave shooting towards him, Pray reluctantly canceled the return to the city that was halfway through the countdown, and easily moved away.

And this time.

A black sphere appeared in everyone’s sight beside the wall at the same time.

That is the special effect of Kaiying activating his E skill and entering the wall.

Kaiying, who was wandering on the wall, did not directly resist the tower, but waited for the soldiers to enter the range of the defense tower.

“Brother! I can’t come!”

Peanut was staring blankly in the top lane.

After level 6, Quinn is like a madman. He uses the high movement speed bonus of his ultimate to frantically exchange health with Sion, and then returns to the city to go online.

Quinn’s seemingly suicidal move was undoubtedly throwing bait to Peanut.

Because he was worried that Kaiying would appear in the top lane, Peanut could only counter-camp in the top lane for a while in advance, thinking that he would go to the bottom lane after the little dragon was about to refresh.

But I didn’t expect that all this was TOP1’s plan!
As the soldiers enter the tower.

Kaiying also walked out of the wall and went straight towards the mouse.

The situation is crisis.

GorillA didn’t have time to explain and subconsciously used his ultimate skill.

A strong wind of healing and protection blows.

Can.
The scene that GorillA imagined of Kaiying being defeated did not appear.

When Kaiying just walks out of the wall, he will have a one-second movement speed bonus.

It is this one second of movement speed bonus.

Let Kaiying use W flash to come to the rat and deal damage with basic attack, thus triggering the release conditions of the ultimate move in advance!
“Jongin! It’s time to test your positioning!” GorillA said and stopped talking.

The ultimate move only took one second to read.

Minotaur walked into the range of the defense tower and used the WQ combo to knock the Wind Girl away, interrupting the casting.

For Pray.

This wave is not without room for maneuver.

Because at the moment when Kaiying activated his ultimate skill, he just entered stealth mode.

Although because he was carrying an enemy’s mobile true eye, his vision was exposed to Xerath.

However, the movement speed bonus effect has not disappeared!

“Go!”

“Go!”

“Go!”

The three people in the LCK commentary booth were in perfect harmony. They clenched their fists, bent their bodies slightly, and repeated these two words, with all their attention focused on the game.

Xerath took the opportunity to use his ultimate skill.

The red circle leads to the point.

All are within the attack range!

The strength of rotation.

Mid laners and ADCs are definitely much stronger than players in other positions.

Pray’s eyes widened, one hand controlling the mouse, and the other hand already pressed the [S] key, ready to cancel the right mouse button command at any time, so as to change the position instantly.

soon.

Xerath’s first [Arcane Barrage] flew out!
But when Pray saw the landing point clearly, his heart sank!
Right on the sole!
You are at the center of the circle!
No matter which direction you move, you will definitely take damage from this [Arcane Barrage]!

“Siba!”

Pray cursed and gave up his flash.

He originally wanted to save this life-saving skill for Xerath’s last [Arcane Barrage], or for the second when Kaiying left his body.

But the reality is often very different from what we wish for.

“I’ll help you interrupt Xerath’s ultimate!”

After coming out of his dizzy state, GorillA was still trying to pull Pray out of the abyss of death.

can.

Xerath’s subsequent shots of [Arcane Barrage] were extremely decisive.

Although the skill description does not mention how long the cooldown is for each shot of Xerath’s ultimate.

But as professional players, they know it very well.

0.5 seconds!
This also means.

Less than two seconds.

Xerath has already fired all three [Arcane Barrage] of his ultimate skill!
all hit!

Always the center of the circle!
The mouse, whose health was completely drained, gave up struggling and waited in place for Kaiying to come out of his body.

As for the Wind Girl who took the initiative to walk out of the defensive tower, she couldn’t survive at all and was directly killed by Xerath’s EWQ.

[TOP1——Emolove killed ROX——Pray! ]

【TOP1——Imp killed ROX——GorillA! 】

“Xerath’s ultimate has a 100% hit rate! Could it be that this is actually one of the top 1’s special moves?”

Guan Zeyuan, who watched the entire tower crossing process, was amazed.

To know.

The reason why Xerath’s appearance rate in games is so low is entirely due to the problem of his skill hit rate.

A hero who cannot guarantee stable output will naturally not be favored by the coaching staff.

But just now, the Xerath controlled by Imp not only hit all three shots!

It only took two seconds from starting the ultimate move to ending it!
If there really are professional players who can do this.

Xerath will definitely not be an unpopular hero.

at this time.

Faker, who was watching the game in the training room, suddenly raised his eyebrows: “This Xerath’s skill is a bit weird!”

“What do you mean?” Bengi, who was on the microphone with him, asked curiously, “Sang Hyuk, did you find something?”

“Well, I’m not sure. I’ll have to watch the replay to find out.”

soon.

Slow motion kill replay is given.

In the eyes of the audience who have already known the results.

The mouse’s twisting and turning movements were so desperate.

No matter how you dodge.

Xerath’s ultimate skill always falls on the rat.

Can.
Faker found something suspicious: “Huh? Xerath’s ultimate always lands right under Rat’s feet one second ago, in the center of the circle!”

“So what?” Bengi, who was not very good at playing mid-lane heroes, was confused.

“In Yu’s words, a player who can perform this kind of operation can be described in four words: This is Gui!” Faker explained: “If I were to play Xerath, I would definitely use my first ultimate to force Rat to change direction, use my second ultimate to ensure that the hit rate can reach 80%, and I would hold the third ultimate in my hand and wait for Kaiying to leave Rat’s body to force Rat to flash before using it.”

“But Brother Xingxiong, look, Imp didn’t consider the hit rate when releasing Xerath’s ultimate, just like…”

“Are you sure you can hit the target before you shoot?” Bengi smiled and reminded: “Is it difficult for Xianghe to perform this operation? Don’t forget that Pray is still under the deceleration effect of Kaiying’s W skill.”

“Yes, but didn’t the rat use flash? It takes time to reposition the rat, right? Although that time was short, it was enough for Pray to get rid of the slowing effect. But Pray got rid of the slowing effect before he died.”

Faker’s answer completely left Bengi speechless.

Kaiying is a new jungle hero.

Bengi is naturally very clear about the effects of his skills.

[Blade Penetration] will only slow down and weaken the enemy for 1.5 seconds.

1.5 seconds!
It was exactly the time when Xerath fired three ultimates.

This also means.

The moment Xerath activated his ultimate, he started shooting with it!
“Brother Yu must have figured out some mechanism, so this is the case. Brother Xingxiong, please log in quickly. We can try customizing it and we will know.”

Faker did what he said and didn’t even want to watch the game anymore.

In his opinion.

The successful tower dive by TOP1 meant the end of the game.

The ‘balance’ that ROX worked so hard to maintain was broken!
“Ah~ Didn’t we agree that I would just watch the game with you? Why do I have to accompany you to find the mechanism in the customization~” Bengi complained while logging into his Korean server account.

just.

Tried for several minutes.

Neither of them understood the principle.

Until suddenly, Jeon Yong-jun’s shocking roar was heard from the background live broadcast room.

They then quickly switched the screen and turned their attention back to the ongoing game.

(End of this chapter)