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Chapter 333 Double [Black Five Minutes]! 《One Talisman, Two Uses, Talismanic Energy Surges!》

After all, V5 has picked this lineup many times, and everyone is familiar with its tactical system and conventional solutions. The main defense is against level 1 jungle invasions.

V5 did not do that either.

Sion appeared in the top lane river as usual, and Kindred also appeared in the bottom lane river as planned. Both sides gained vision of each other, which undoubtedly made WBG members relax their vigilance slightly.

Little did they know, this was actually just V5's empty city strategy.

Minion lane clash.

Jayce vs. Sion is clearly a counter to the matchup, so at level one, he naturally wants to maximize his range advantage. TheShy immediately pushes forward, and once he crosses the minion wave, he's about to unleash his signature "unorthodox" playstyle.

Sion retreated to the three bushes behind his own side, while Jayce moved in and placed a ward, completely exposing Sion who had started charging his Q as soon as he entered the bush.

Jayce immediately switched to hammer form to gain speed, attempting to escape the range of [Brutal Strike].

But at that moment—almost within arm's reach of Jayce, a crow suddenly scurried out from the bushes behind him, its cry filled with terror!

"Huh!?" TheShy was clearly startled by the sudden situation and exclaimed in surprise.

Meanwhile, Beryl's scarecrow emerged from the bushes and was meticulously adjusting its position.

He used the Fear mechanic's property that "enemies will move in the opposite direction of the scarecrow" to force Jayce, who might have unconsciously escaped the range of the Brutal Strike, back to his original position like "herding sheep"!

Sion's fully charged giant axe slammed down, knocking Jayce away for a full 2.25 seconds!
Jayce, who had already penetrated deep behind enemy lines, was hit by a full 3.5-second+ control chain and was ultimately killed by Tristana's rocket jump, securing the first blood.

"It's so hot! It's so hot! It's so hot!!!"

"For God's sake! For God's sake! Why is V5 targeting me like this?!"

The commentator was on stage performing "The Filial Child Cries Shy," his tone filled with righteous indignation!

Guan Zeyuan, on the other hand, smiled and searched his memory: "I suddenly remembered, didn't Master Ye use a similar tactic when he first met TheShy after his debut?"

Upon hearing this, Angel, who was standing next to her, immediately widened her eyes as if her memory had been awakened: "That's right! I remember now, I think we used Zoe back then!"

"Haha, Teacher Da'an, you should remember, that game was between you and Master Ye."

I hate it so much~ I hate it so much~~

[Oh, I only found out today that Dave's surname is Ye, and that Master Ye is actually the plant's real supporter and accomplice behind the scenes!]

What does this have to do with Ip Man?

[Still young. Didn't Guan Gougang just say that? This is the same strategy Ye Shifu used to specifically target TheShy, it's just that TheShy forgot it after a year~]

[Guan Ge and Da An, stop chatting. The person next to you seems to have already sent it a while ago.]

The two commentators on the platform were engrossed in their conversation, oblivious to the life or death of the person next to them.

The child god's face was ashen, and his tone was deathly: "This is truly the first time I've ever seen a duo team camping at the start of a match. What's the point of doing that?"

"Although Jayce gave up first blood, he was still able to TP back to lane and gain experience. But what's the point of V5's bot lane doing that in the top lane? The bot lane will definitely lose turret plating! They'll make up for this small loss sooner or later!"

After Sion helped secure the kill, he immediately teleported to the bottom lane right there in front of everyone.

As the kid said, this lane swap does seem a bit confusing at the moment.

To understand why the "lane swapping strategy" that was popular in the early days almost completely disappeared after Season 9, we need to know why.

The answer is simple: plating!
Since the addition of the plating mechanic in Season 9, laning is no longer about getting kills to gain an advantage—just getting the gold from two plating tiers is equivalent to getting a solo kill, providing a crucial additional source of gold.

This change directly led to the demise of utility top laners like Letme.

Previously, as long as you didn't trade blows and farmed well under the tower, even if the most powerful enemy came, they would at most only have a single-digit advantage in last hits.

In terms of laning alone, it's true that "all are equal" no matter who comes out on top!
However, since the plating mechanic was introduced, simply avoiding the enemy in lane is no longer viable, as the opponent can gain just as much gold as if they had gotten a solo kill without needing one!

Additionally, due to the addition of a {differentiated turret protection} mechanism, the turrets on the top and mid lanes receive a {50% damage reduction} for the first 5 minutes, while the turrets on the bottom lane remain unchanged.

This means that anyone who dares to change the production line will inevitably suffer a disadvantage in terms of coating!

Theoretically speaking, that is indeed the case.

However, Guan Zeyuan noticed the movements of both sides at this moment: "Wait a minute, although Sion teleported to the bottom lane, Kindred is on her way!"

"V5 might still be aiming for something more!"

"However, at the same time, Casa seemed to realize something was wrong without any information, and the radar was activated!"

"Kasa is also moving towards the top lane!"

Actually, from the perspective of player playstyle, Danny prefers Weiwei, another jungler on the team.

After all, Kasa is known as the "Ultraman jungler". In the first 15 minutes, his mind is active and his thinking is clear. He has an extremely strong ability to capture and analyze information, so he often has the feeling of "radar vision".

However, after 15 minutes, once the chaotic lane transition period begins, Karsa, lacking sufficient information, will immediately be at a loss.

The reason Danny has been using Karsa since the playoffs is actually to beat V5!

He needs Karsa's early-game strength to help the team withstand V5's highly aggressive early-game offensive.

"Although Kindred also rushed over after taking the bottom buff, Blade of the Ruined King also had a very clear goal and went straight to the top lane. The two bumped into each other in the bush behind the tower!"

"In that case, V5's tower dive plan should be stopped, no, no!"

"V5 seems to be shifting its focus to counter the Ruined King's blue buff!"

Kasa's choices and actions, even from the perspective of everyone with God's eye, were absolutely correct and wise; one can only praise his exceptional awareness.

However, the V5 team believes this was a mistake!

The logic is simple.

The top lane duo secured a kill at level 1 and pushed the minion wave to the tower, both reaching level 2.

On the other hand, Jayce landed via Teleport but didn't get any farm and was only level 1.

Admittedly, if the Ruined King doesn't come to Jesta, he'll definitely be unable to stay there. The best outcome would be for him to be kicked out of the experience zone and hide in the "self-isolation grass" in front of the second tower to AFK, which is a sure-fire way to collapse.

But when the Ruined King arrived, the result was just that Jayce, who was the only one to collapse, collapsed, and then the top and jungle players collapsed together!

"3 against 2! And it's three level 3s against one level 1! WBG doesn't even have the right to fight!"

"Even if the mid-lane Lissandra can arrive a little faster, Ryze can't be much slower. With such a numerical disadvantage, the mid-lane will just collapse along with her!"

"Kasa and TheShy must be having a really tough time like this!"

The Ruined King painstakingly ran all the way from the bottom half of the map to the top lane, only to see the support Fiddlesticks following behind and forcefully invading the jungle, while Jayce was busy farming and leveling up under the top lane tower.
What should we do?!

The most intuitive and simple idea seems to be to have your bot lane duo come to the top lane and swap lanes.

But this is precisely the most foolish line of thinking!

Because if WBG's bot lane duo wants to switch in, they first need to push the lane to the tower to gain the "roaming advantage" → with the roaming advantage, the opponent cannot know their position and will not be switched back in time.

You can push the minion wave to the tower. If you don't attack the tower plating, you'll lose the gold that you could have recovered in the bottom lane!

Add to that the time it takes to return to base and get to the top lane, and the vacuum period during which the top lane can't farm – in the end, it turns from losing on the top lane alone to losing on both the top and bottom lanes!

Even without roaming information, V5 can still catch them out through blind vision and force a lane swap!

to be honest.

If you want to switch lanes: if you fail to switch, both of you will suffer huge losses; if you do switch, both of you will also suffer huge losses!
Casa understood this.

Clearly, in the current situation, the only solution that a clear-thinking decision-maker can come up with is to have both top laners "suffer imprisonment"!
The more you push me up, the more I push you down—only in this way can we barely break even! This is why the V5 players weren't panicked at all when they saw Blade of the Ruined King appear in the top lane.

If Karsa had decisively abandoned the top lane at the start and instead followed Sion to the bottom lane, Sion, who was also only level 1 when he teleported down, obviously wouldn't have been able to withstand the attack.

"TheShy managed to reach level two while the support was helping the jungler counter-jungle, but Karsa had already been driven out of the top half of the map and was forced to go to the bottom half to counter-jungle!"

"Xun's Kindred has already taken all the buffs in the bottom lane at the start of the game, so if Blade of the Ruined King goes down there, he will definitely lose out in the jungle."

"The key point is! Even if WBG can actually tower dive Sion, it seems like a huge loss for them!"

"V5's initial strategy of targeting the top lane has been expanded to this extent; their tactical design capabilities are simply terrifying!"

Everyone finally understood the situation.

V5 has Sion, but WBG has Jayce!

Sion is still Sion, just with slightly reduced tankiness.

If Jayce collapses, he'll be reduced to a gigolo like Senator Talisman, and his Hextech Cannon will become nothing more than a water gun—useless without the ability to deal damage!
Even so, this is the best solution WBG could come up with.

"Shy! You have to hold on for at least five minutes. We need to take down this little dragon before we can force a trade!" Karsa commanded through gritted teeth.

"Bad luck, bad luck." TheShy scratched his head, but seemed to be in a relatively calm state of mind.

He naturally understood that this was the best option at the moment.

It's been three minutes now, and the dragon will respawn in two minutes.

Even if we can find a gap where two people can go home together on both sides, we have to wait at least 5 minutes before we can switch in, otherwise we'll be handing the dragon back to us!
And this means.

For Jess, the next five minutes were truly a "black five minutes"!
Kindred immediately activated the "point-to-point withdrawal" mode and enjoyed collecting marks. Although Jayce barely managed to level up to level three, he was powerless to fight back under the tower against Fiddlesticks' stable fear and control chain!
On the other hand, Sion, also at level three, held out for a full 3 seconds longer than WBG when facing a tower dive, forcing WBG to use two more Flashes to escape the tower before Sion managed to trade kills.

But Sion is dead, and there are zombies!

The zombie stood up and devoured all the minions under the tower. Despite dying, it didn't lose any experience from a single minion and greatly affected the opponent's plating rhythm!

This difference, in turn, led to a significant deviation in the second wave of tower diving between the two sides.

Jayce, at level 4, was once again helpless and was killed by V5 under the tower.

But the level 5 Sion managed to clear the minion wave and even used his zombie form to chase down and kill the support!
It wasn't until almost five minutes had passed that the "sentence" for both top laners seemed to come to an end.

"TheShy is so pitiful!!" Kid felt like crying but couldn't, and his voice was clearly trembling with sobs.

"He only got 9 CS in five minutes! Sion got 27! And Sion is almost level 6!"

"Even if they manage to lane together, Jayce might have a hard time pressuring Sion, and could even be pressured by Sion in return!"

Angel finally couldn't hold back any longer and let out a cheerful laugh from the commentary booth.

Guan Zeyuan, feeling a bit sympathetic and unable to bear watching any longer, comforted him, "Don't worry, Kid God. Actually, right now it's just the top laners of both sides exploding against each other. WBG is still even in the other lanes. Gala and Karsa are both very fed!"

"Lissandra is definitely more useful than Ryze in early-game fights. Given WBG's lineup's fighting ability, a fight might be inevitable even if neither top laner participates."

"Wow! But it looks like Master Ye is about to unleash his power too!"

Before he could even finish speaking, the director switched the camera to the middle lane, causing everyone to scream.

In fact.

Those five dark minutes weren't just a prison sentence for top laner Jayce.

Mid lane is also a fellow inmate!

Everyone knows that the reason for picking Lissandra is to better coordinate with the jungler—Blade of the Ruined King and Lissandra can gank Ryze. It may not be a guaranteed gank, but it will definitely put Ryze under a lot of pressure.

The problem with this match is that Casarte's route and location are completely open and transparent!
Not only did they know the opponent was definitely in the bottom half of the map, but more importantly, Blade of the Ruined King simply didn't have the time or energy to gank in the mid lane.

After all, their own top laner was being tower-dived, and if Blade of the Ruined King dared to let Sion farm comfortably under the tower for two waves, his level would be slightly higher, and he would be unable to complete the "tower dive" and would completely explode!
The Ruined King is too busy ganking and farming jungle camps to have time to try his luck in the mid lane!
This is like opening up a 1v1 battlefield in the mid lane.

Then, every time the camera switched to the middle lane, we immediately saw Wu Song bullying Xiao Hu!
Ryze charged up his double E to accelerate forward! But with a sudden stop and a turn of his head, he narrowly dodged Lissandra's W as she turned around!

Crystal Maiden's W skill has a range of only 450 yards, so you have to get very close to hit her.

Ye Bo precisely timed his turn at the edge of the distance, dodging the Ice Maiden's W skill as she turned around!
"That's the detail in Master Ye's operation!"

"Xiaohu used his E skill under the tower, his health was already in danger, but Ryze triggered Phase Rush."

Lissandra's 1v1 matchup against Ryze isn't easy, largely because her E skill, Glacial Path, is easily interrupted.

The first part of Ice Claw needs to extend forward to increase the displacement distance, and the displacement distance in the instant-cast state is extremely short; however, once it is hit by Ryze's EW root, Crystal Maiden's second E displacement will be unusable.

Xiaohu looked at Ryze, who was still chasing after him, and clearly sensed that the opponent had murderous intent.

Fortunately, Ryze's E requires flight time, so you can't follow up with EW too quickly—otherwise, when you use W, the opponent won't have the spell ring from E yet, and the root won't be triggered.

Seeing Ryze cast Spell Surge, Lissandra immediately used Flash to jump to the side in the opposite direction!

Because the crampons didn't travel enough distance!

The time gained by the Flash dash finally allowed Ice Claw to extend into the turret, and Crystal Maiden decisively pressed her E second dash to rush under the turret.

However, the movement of the Ice Claws also allowed the Ice Maiden to stand side by side with the newly arrived minions.

The [Spell Surge] aura around him then spread to the surrounding minions!

It was this action that led to this.

This gave Ye Bo, who had already given up the pursuit, an opportunity.

"Ryze used Flash to chase! Is that enough damage!?"

"Little Tiger cleverly tried to use the minions as a barrier. Huh?"

"That is!?"

The nervous little tiger felt his bottom burning hot, which stimulated his brain to work at lightning speed, enabling him to make a crucial response.

He was a skilled Ryze player in his youth and was well aware of the champion's mechanics limitations: Both Q and W abilities rely on the spell mark from E to trigger their additional effects—but a single spell mark can only provide a bonus to one ability!
So when he saw Ryze initiate with Q-Flash, his first reaction was to move towards the minion wave.

This is because after Ryze's Q consumes the Spread Mark and hits Lissandra, it means that Ryze's W no longer has the root effect, so the second Q refreshed by W cannot reliably hit.

Once the Ice Maiden enters the minion wave and has cover, she can safely walk back to the tower!

But just as the spell surged and the Overload damage spread through minions, Ryze suddenly experienced a strange pause.
Immediately afterwards, Ryze opened the Rune Codex and raised his hand to imprison the Crystal Maiden in place!
At the same time, the overloaded magic orb spreading from the minions to the Ice Maiden—still clearly continued to propagate forward before everyone's eyes!

"One talisman, two uses; talismanic energy surges!"

Ryze aimed at the rooted Crystal Maiden and easily landed a QA combo, grazing the minion's scalp and hitting her body!
One more basic attack, and I've taken down the Ice Woman's head!

[These two heroes can also get solo kills!?]

[Little Tiger! Cancel your account!]

[Poor Tiger, I just saw on the anti-Tiger forum that Master Ye's parents were in the audience, so he must have run into someone at their peak.]

[Am I seeing things? Ryze's E seems to have acted on both Q and W twice!?]

[There's nothing wrong with that. Is there a problem with me being a rune mage and knowing how to use runes a bit better?]

[Truly, "Quick Hands and Grab Them All!"]

Meanwhile, Danny was backstage, glancing sideways at the TV screen with the whites of his eyes.

It was as if he had once again transformed into the human form of the liberator.
(End of this chapter)