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Three minutes and thirty seconds later, Li Yi was managing the minion wave while using the "screen switching" ability to check the jungler's movements.

After Mingkai finished dealing with his top river crab, he kept trying to ambush at the bottom river crab's mouth, attempting to use the sound detection mechanism after the excavator burrowed underground to find the enemy Lee Sin's location.

"Mingkai, stop camping. The enemy Lee Sin probably hasn't finished clearing the jungle yet," Li Yi said casually in the voice chat.

"what?"

Mingkai didn't react for a moment.

His initial assessment was that at the 3 minutes and 15 seconds mark, a typical jungler would have just finished clearing a jungle area and was ready to take the Rift Scuttler. Therefore, he positioned himself early, hoping to catch Lee Sin's movements.

If Lee Sin doesn't come, he'll likely change speed and go to the side lane to look for opportunities, so Mingkai can give his teammates a warning in advance.

So it turns out they didn't come because they were too slow at clearing jungle camps?

Ning truly lives up to his reputation as a master!

That wasted a full ten seconds of the opposing jungler's time.

After calling Mingkai back to farm the jungle, Li Yi refocused his attention on the lane against Cassiopeia.

Cassiopeia's only chance to crush Twisted Fate was at level one, but Rookie's attempt to push across the minion wave was thwarted by Li Yi.

Once the card reaches level 5 and you unlock level 3 Q, you can quickly push through an entire wave of lanes using Q (Wild Card) and W (Red Card).

Furthermore, Cassiopeia possesses the only passive ability in the entire League that prevents her from wearing shoes.

This means that Cassiopeia cannot buy Mercury's Treads. If she chooses to push past the minion wave without Cleanse, she is likely to be stunned by the Yellow Card for a full two seconds, and then get chased down and killed by Rek'Sai's Q.

To gain an early advantage, Rookie opted for a Doran's Ring instead of the more common Sapphire Crystal as his starting item.

The cost was that even though Rookie managed to get a Tear of the Goddess during his first recall, he still lacked mana because he didn't have a chance to stack more tears.

Therefore, around the eight-minute mark of the laning phase, Cassiopeia, who had already recalled to base to replenish her health, ran out of mana again and had to recall once more.

This is from the EDG team's in-game voice chat at this moment.

Back in the jungle, after clearing six camps, Mingkai asked in voice chat, "Is there an opportunity for the bot lane? I can gank."

"There's a chance, Brother Yi, can you fly?"

Iboy, who was busy finishing off enemies, took a moment to reply.

This bot lane matchup was unusual because West picked his signature champion Ezreal, allowing him to push lanes and trade blows recklessly with Karma's RQ combo in the early game.

  

Li Yi hesitated for a moment: "We'll have to wait a little longer."

The reason is also very simple.

Rookie placed a ward in front of him, and Li Yi moved down the lane with the vision exposed, while the opposing duo pushing the lane showed no intention of retreating.

Then there's only one possibility: Lee Sin is already preparing to counter-gank.

Therefore, Li Yi's idea was to wait for Ming Kai to arrive before activating his R skill to reach the bottom lane, ensuring that the control chain could be reliably connected.

Just as Li Yi had predicted.

The moment Mingkai's excavator scaled the wall, the Lee Sin emerged from the shadows behind the minion wave.

At this moment, Li Yi had already arrived at the river. After confirming the range of his R skill, a giant eyeball appeared above all the IG players.

【destiny】!

"Here it comes! The first team fight has begun in the bottom lane!"

Commentator Guan Zeyuan immediately raised his voice.

The long and boring laning phase had been mostly dominated by Su Xiaoyan, but now the team fights were finally in his comfort zone.

"IG obviously didn't expect it to be a 3v4 situation, but they didn't retreat because their mid-laner Twisted Fate hadn't bought any more items and wasn't in good condition!" Guan Zeyuan began describing the details of the team fight at a very fast pace.

"The card's landing point is somewhat dangerous!"

The moment Li Yi landed, the enemy's bottom laner, jungler, and support noticed his low health and immediately communicated in voice chat to counterattack.

"Karma's RW has been linked to LeeE's Twisted Fate, and Lee Sin's Q [Sonic Wave] also hit!"

The commentators were all secretly sweating.

But Li Yi's choice was very calm.

He first applied the Summoner Spell Exhaust to Ezreal, who was attacking from a distance, instead of Karma, who was already close in. At the same time, he moved closer to the wall, aligning himself with the excavator model that had been dug out.

"The Lee Sin was about to land his second Q when he was interrupted by the Excavator's W [Emerge]! So the damage here is definitely not enough."

Because they were chasing Li Yi, the Blind Monk and Karma were positioned too deep inside the enemy territory.

After Lee Sin was knocked up by Excavator's W [Breakout], Li Yi activated W [Select Card] to draw a yellow card, thus connecting the control.

The belated policewoman placed the trap and skillfully finished off the Lee Sin with a series of [QE headshot].

"We can still chase them! We can still chase them!"

Li Yi ignored Karma, who had lost her offensive capabilities, and instead directed his teammates to chase after Ezreal, who was far away.

Seeing that Li Yi, who was low on health, had not fallen, EZ raised his hand and used his R skill [Precision Barrage], but it was blocked by Braum's [Stand Up] shield.

Seeing that his two teammates had fallen one after another, EZ had no choice but to use his E [Arcane Shift] to pass through Braum's shield and finish off the remaining damage to take down Twisted Fate.

"Great, one for three!"

The EDG fans at the scene erupted in cheers.

"That was indeed a very beautiful gank." Su Xiaoyan nodded in agreement.

"The champion Twisted Fate requires players to constantly monitor the status and skill status of their teammates on both side lanes while laning. Therefore, players who can pick Twisted Fate are all veteran mid laners who have played in the LPL for a long time."

Su Xiaoyan flipped through her notes; she had done her pre-competition preparation very thoroughly.

"LeeE didn't use his ultimate immediately in that wave, probably because he guessed that the enemy jungler was counter-ganking. So he waited for his own jungler to get into position before using his teleport to ensure that he could keep the enemy in place while avoiding being quickly focused down."

This is from EDG's team voice chat.

"These two kills were so easy," Iboy muttered as he recalled to base, pulling out a B.F. Sword and Berserker's Greaves. "We can easily dominate the bot lane now."

"That's good."

Li Yi nodded, controlling the newly resurrected Twisted Fate back to the mid lane: "Let me main call this game?"

In EDG's usual matches, Meiko is the main strategist in directing the team's movements, Mingkai will occasionally share his gank ideas, and Li Yi is responsible for providing suggestions during late-game lane rotations.

"Wow, you're going to fight for the throne?" Meiko joked with Li Yi, which was also a tacit acceptance of Li Yi's suggestion.

Although skill level in the game does not necessarily determine who has command authority, after nearly ten days together, the EDG players have been able to sense Li Yi's excellent overall strategic vision.

Especially heroes like Twisted Fate, who seem to serve the team but actually need to remotely control their teammates to achieve the desired effect.

Li Yi didn't stand on ceremony: "Alright then, Mingkai, give me a blue buff."

Twisted Fate is a hero who relies heavily on skill cooldowns, so Li Yi greatly needs the 10% skill cooldown reduction provided by "Crown of Insight," and therefore he also brings the talent "Runic Affinity," which increases buff duration by 15%.

"Come and get it yourself."

Mingkai reduced the blue buff to around 100 health and then pinged Li Yi, who was farming minions in the mid lane.