I just turned eighteen, and you want me to make a comeback?

Chapter 148 - Ice Fist Victor, the Playoffs Begin

"He's really dead..."

Wei Shen muttered to himself.

He also saw the situation on the road.

It is no exaggeration to say that any CPL jungler can do this.

But what surprised him was that just half a minute ago, when Yuan Shen was about to push the line into the tower, he told Karsa to come and help him make up for the damage of his ultimate move, otherwise the opponent would die.

Then Karsa used his ultimate skill and the opponent was really dead, as if everything in the top lane was controlled by his script.

This kill was really a big boost. After killing Jayce, the Flash Wolves mid and jungle came directly to the top lane, and with the advantage of numbers, they took away the blue buff and gave it to Viktor.

After returning home, Victor, who had saved a lot of money, made the core equipment.

Heirloom - Hextech core upgrade, strengthening Q skills.

At the same time, Ice Fist was also created.

Although the Ice Fist can be described as "good value for money" among all equipment, the fact that it was made so early also proves that Viktor has developed very well.

The Hexcore enhances the Q skill, which will increase Viktor's movement speed by 30% when using Q, lasting for 2.5 seconds, and the shield value of the skill will also be increased by 60%.

As soon as he came online, seeing Jayce trying hard to push the line to his own tower, Yuan Shen directly Q-ed the soldier, accelerated forward, and clicked on Jayce.

The effect of main Q + radiance directly took away 200 points of Jayce's health, and...

A layer of frost covered Jace on both sides.

"slow down?!"

Khan was shocked. Although he knew that the opponent Viktor's skill allocation method and talents were a bit strange, focusing on Q instead of E, he never expected that he would take out such a cool thing as Ice Fist.

As soon as the slowdown took effect, Viktor placed a [Gravity Field (W)] directly under Jayce's feet.

The placement of this W is very careful, with the center on Jayce's retreat route.

This means that if Jayce continues to retreat, he will definitely be stunned, and if he does not retreat, he will have to fight Vitok.

Khan hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not make the move to use flash directly.

If he uses this flash, he'll be even more unable to fight in the lane... And, even if his equipment is a little behind, isn't it a bit too much for a mage to come up and fight Jayce head-on?
Jayce uses QE to fire a counterattack, activates W, switches to cannon form and attacks hard.

Because he was using the armor-piercing style, even when facing Viktor with Ice Fist, Jayce's output was very considerable. A burst of power combined with Thunder directly knocked off half of Viktor's blood.

!!
Judging from the scene, Viktor lost half of his health in an instant, while Jayce still had 80% of his health. Yuanshen looked in danger, and the audience was shocked.

However, seeing Jayce's counterattack, Yuan Shen felt that Khan had lost his mind.

Start with a [Chaos Storm (R)] on the spot, laser passes by, and Viktor starts with another AQA.

The two of them immediately started a philosophical discussion.

As the fight went on, Khan realized something was wrong.

Viktor was reduced to half health in one set of attacks, and until now, he is still half health. On the other hand, Jayce... is almost killed.

"What is this shield? Why can it last so long?" Khan watched helplessly as he just destroyed the opponent's shield, and Viktor used Q to make a new shield appear.

Jayce's hammer is long and thick, and his fighting style is often one-shot, with the momentum of a tiger. However, this tall, rich, and handsome man has a long period of fatigue.

After firing a shot, it will be unable to rise again for a short period of time.

But Viktor, whose body has been mechanically transformed, is different. The basic cooldown time of his Q at full level is 4 seconds. When the cooldown is 40%, there is a Q skill in 2.4 seconds.

The shield duration of the Q skill is 2.5 seconds.

What is this concept?
This means that Viktor with full cooldown can stack two layers of Q shield on himself.

Yuan Shen's Viktor now has only 30% cooldown including talent runes, and cannot provide double Q shield for the time being. However, the shield of the previous Q just disappears, and the next Q can be continued, seamlessly taking over.

In terms of durability, what can compare to machine-generated humans?
No matter how strong a man is, he cannot keep pounding piles for three days and three nights, but a machine can. As long as there is enough energy, it is no problem for a perpetual motion machine to keep pounding.

Khan underestimated Ice Fist Viktor's ability to sustain combat, and turned and flashed away, but it was too late.

Viktor used his Ice Fist to stick to the opponent, used Q to speed up, and chased all the way to the tower. He killed Jayce without even using Flash.

Jace had just been out for less than half a minute when he died again.

"Hold on, top lane!" Kangdi frowned. He hadn't seen the entire fight, but it didn't make sense for a Jayce... a hero who was invincible in laning, to be suppressed and killed by the opponent.

"Jiligulu..." Khan explained in Korean, but unfortunately, only his brother-in-law could understand him and comforted him in a light tone, while the other people in WE just thought he was trying to pass the buck.

Even communication is so difficult, let alone making up for the mistakes. WE did not realize how serious the gap in the top lane was. If the top laner died, the whole body would be affected.

After Viktor pushed the line, he went directly with Gragas to farm the Rift Herald.

With the Rift Herald buff in hand, the river crab under control, and vision of the jungle area, Viktor can suppress the enemy even more without any scruples.

What is Advantage Operation?
After gaining the advantage, knowing what to do can make the snowball roll in the most scientific and safest way, which is advantage operation.

Flash Wolves are very good at this kind of operation.

Especially he is better at operations after the top laner gains an advantage.

Two minutes later, Viktor pushed down a tower alone.

The Flash Wolves' bottom lane duo moved to the middle lane, farming on the shortest route, not actively stirring up trouble, and the possibility of a fight was basically zero. Furthermore, Annie's wave clearing ability was too strong, and she could clear a wave of soldiers with just QW.

Lulu switched to the top lane to clear the line. The opponent did not have a tower, so the jungler did not dare to go deep to catch Lulu.
Viktor, who gained the advantage, went to the bottom lane to push the team alone.

Along with the lane change, the focus of Flash Wolves' jungler and support's vision control also shifted from the upper jungle to the lower jungle, always focusing on Viktor.

WE found that they could not limit Viktor's solo laning at all.

Want to catch it?
Viktor ran away from eight hundred miles away. Their jungle was the opponent's vision. After clearing it out, new vision would appear.

Not going to catch it?
The health of the bottom lane tower is being continuously reduced and it will soon be pushed down.

An unsolvable four-one split push.

At the S5 World Championship, Flash Wolves won the championship with this move.

After the top laner gained the advantage, the initiative was completely in the hands of Flash Wolves. If they wanted to fight with the opponent, the opponent would have something to fight with.

If you don't want to fight, let Viktor go solo to contain the enemy, and use his own strength to contain the combat power of at least two enemies, providing space for the entire team to develop.

WE gradually became anxious.

There is no need to say much about Lucian's strength in the early game, but if Sivir makes three big items, the role of the ADC on both sides in team battles will be very different.

The same goes for Jayce and LeBlanc.

The anxious WE tried to start a team fight several times, but were pushed away by Flash Wolves' Tai Chi tactics.

Furthermore, Flash Wolves managed to snag a few kills thanks to the counter-attacks of Braum and Gragas, such as Gragas's ultimate blasting the enemy into the tower. "This situation sounds so familiar..." Wei Xiao murmured, having also been following the match.

As an old member of WE, even after retiring, Wei Xiao always had this WE in mind. He even came back to replace the coach when the team was in the most critical moment, and took a big blame.

Looking back at the games over the years, LPL's aggressive fighting style often has two outcomes in the early and mid-game when facing LCK teams.

The first result is that you lose the fight and the opponent's support comes faster.

The second result is that you win the fight, but the snowball just can't start rolling in the mid-term.

why?
Because the opponent's top laner can often restrain the opponent by himself, and create development space for the entire team with his own strength.

Wait until the LCK team feels they can fight, then they will fight you.

In the early and middle stages of this game, WE won the fight, but the rhythm was led by Viktor.

At this pace, WE will be beaten to death.
"This one is too difficult." Wei Xiao sighed, feeling a little complicated.

If the old WE team had such a top-tier top laner...

The most obvious element of a top-level top laner is that he or she can single-handedly shoulder the pressure of the entire team when at a disadvantage, creating a breakthrough for the team.

Praising single kills, praising team fights, praising pressure resistance... all have no meaning
When teammates are in a favorable position, they can take off even if they send a pig forward. When they are ahead with an infinity, diamond players can kill Uzi alone. Even if they are beaten by the opponent for the whole game, they can still win the game and be teased as the king of pressure resistance.

Whether a player can stand up when the team is at a disadvantage is the best way to see his value.

In the next ten minutes or so, WE could not find any breakthrough.

Seeing that Imp's Wheel Mother had completed the third big piece, they finally couldn't help it.

Big dragon forces a team fight!
They thought it was forcing a team fight, but from the Flash Wolves' perspective, it was giving them an opportunity.

"Fight, fight, fight, they are giving us opportunities," Karsa said.

"Give me the eyes, I'll teleport." Yuan Shen said.

He took up all the team resources and held the enemy back for more than 30 minutes alone. Victor's equipment was incredibly good.

Max level heirloom + Ice Fist + Wand of Time + Cloth Shoes + Central Asia + Negatron Cloak.

A team fight is about to break out.

Braum and Gragas are at the front, and Lulu protects the output of the top laner and adc.

Viktor with this equipment has very good damage. One AEQA can take away half of the health of an adc squishy hero.

WE's hatred was all on this Victor, and they really wanted to kill him.

However... it's too hard to kill.

Armor 200, magic resistance over 3000, health close to , Q skill shield is constantly online, ice fist slows down, Viktor speeds up, W divides the battlefield...

How to kill?
Because they wanted to kill Viktor so much, WE completely ignored the invisible output of Annie throughout the game.

In this version of Annie's W, it has been epically enhanced and can trigger a critical hit.

Bounce, bounce, bounce, the wheel bounced back and forth several times, triggering a critical hit, and WE's lineup without a front row was somewhat collapsed.

Teammates died one after another. Xiye gritted his teeth and wanted to replace the low-health Viktor. He moved forward with W and ignited with QR.
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Enough of the damage!
however.

"bite--!"

A desperate voice sounded, and Victor turned into a little golden man.

Xiye took his hands off the keyboard and scratched his hair a little angrily.

As for Khan... Jayce, who was at a disadvantage in the game, was usually the first to die in team fights. Khan stared at the computer with lifeless eyes, feeling despair in his heart.

The Dragon Group was a 0-for-5 fight, and the Flash Wolves ended the game in one wave.

Flash Wolves defeated WE 2:0 and won another game.

……

The spring season schedule is not very long.

This year's competition system is very tight. Each team must play at least two B03 games per week, and some even have to play three B03 games per week.
The high-intensity competition has enabled every CPL team to quickly adapt to this new version and make rapid progress.

Weak teams make surprise moves and upsets, strong teams stagnate in their understanding of the version, mid-level teams adapt to the version and make rapid progress... these things are constantly happening.

The entire spring season, including the playoffs, only lasts for three months.

In mid-April, with the end of the last regular season match between Flash Wolves and QG, the 2016 CPL Spring regular season ended.

The final regular season rankings are also out.

There are a total of sixteen teams. The top eight will enter the playoffs, and the bottom four will play in the promotion and relegation matches to face the challenge of LSPL.

The teams that successfully advanced to the playoffs were FW, QG, RNG, EDG, AHQ, WE, IG, and Snake.

The first-placed Flash Wolves have a terrifying record. Although they have lost in small games, they have maintained an undefeated streak in large games.

Wei Shen and Imp are already the top duo in the league, and they can also be ranked among the top in the world.

After experiencing the defeat in the S5 World Championship, Wei Shen himself seemed to have entered a special state. Whether he was practicing heroes or playing games, his overall strength seemed to have improved a lot.

As Flash Wolves continued to win, this situation not only did not disappear, but became even better.

QG, ranked second, continued its dark horse momentum and won the second place in the regular season with only two losses. The two losses were to IG and Flash Wolves respectively, with scores of 1:2.

Following closely behind is the dark horse RNG, which still uses the signature jungler-support linkage. The effect of Mala Xiangguo and Mata can be called the best jungler-support combination in CPL.

EDG, ranked fourth, is still strong. The entire lineup has not changed much except for the top laner. It is still playing the traditional double C routine. The top laner A Guang has mastered the three heroes of Maokai, Poppy, and Tahm Kench, and can ensure that he will not collapse when facing most top laners.

Of course, this does not include Yuan Shen and Looper.

AHQ's overall lineup has not changed much either. In the competition with other strong teams in CPL, the overall team's strength has also improved rapidly.

WE and IG, ranked sixth and seventh, have the same overall points, but WE has an advantage in the minor points.

Both teams have a very ferocious fighting style this season and tend to be more aggressive.

The IG team is very special. After MaRin joined, the gap between the team's upper and lower limits has become even bigger.

This traditional powerhouse has lost to the experienced EPA, but has also defeated RNG and QG, two dark horses ranked above it. It is impossible to understand what their true strength is, and their upper and lower limits are so unpredictable.

Not to mention the Snake team. The addition of mid laner Zzitai is only a temporary solution for them. The level of jungler World Sister is really too poor. Let alone facing top junglers such as Karsa, Mingkai, and Xiangguo, they are even much worse than Taobao Quan who did not make the playoffs.

To be able to reach the eighth position, Crystal Brother and Flandre really tried their best.

The dark force 0MG, which once dominated the league, not only failed to make it to the playoffs, but also had to play in the relegation match, which made many old fans of 59E sigh.

Many people also stopped being fans during this period.

(End of this chapter)