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Chapter 74 Mosquito Stream

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Seeing Nightmare completely lose his mind, flash into the turret and trade one for one with the enemy Thresh, IM's top laner, the handsome AmazingJ, let out a long sigh.

It's not that I'm lamenting my teammates' performance.

However, a Demacian flag appeared under the turret behind him, and a teleportation beam lit up on the flag.

of course.

What bothered him most wasn't the certain death of a three-man gank, since Kennen's E skill [Surprise Attack! Thunder Armor] would grant him both armor and magic resistance, and then his ultimate would definitely clear the minion wave, minimizing his losses before he died.

On the contrary, their own Korean mid laner Athena kept saying "I can come, I can come." AmazingJ looked at the mid laner's position and saw that his TP was still on cooldown. How could he say he could come while farming under the tower?

"AJ is such a good team player!"

"They didn't use their ultimates to clear those two waves of minions that were pushing into the tower. They probably saw the mid laner coming from the jungle, so they were going to let Kassadin farm." Miller, as a veteran top laner, saw through AmazingJ's intentions at a glance.

"Ugh, this person is so annoying!"

As Athena controlled Kassadin to enter the jungle, she discovered that Li Yi was scanning the jungle with his scanner on.

Seeing that Li Yi had cleared all the remaining blue side wards, Athena was a little afraid of the bush prince's EQ combo, so she could only glance back at the minion wave that had been burned in the top lane before returning to the mid lane.

As the mid laner who has played the most scrims with EDG.

Athena, to be fair.

Li Yi's laning pressure wasn't particularly aggressive. If Scout were playing, Athena even felt there were a couple of times when he might have to use his Flash.

But if he really had to choose, he'd prefer laning against Scout, since all he had to do was defend against solo kills, whereas laning against Li Yi would require a lot more thought.

Take the wave around eight minutes in, for example, where Athena was hiding under the tower at half health, farming minions.

LeBlanc has just upgraded her items, so if all her skills land, she definitely has a chance to get a solo kill. Athena dares to say that 99% of mid laners will try the QRWEW combo in this situation, or at least force a Flash.

But Li Yi seemed to have no such idea at all.

He seemed to have anticipated that Athena would definitely return to base to buy a new item, and was just deliberately baiting her by sacrificing health in front of the tower. So he ran towards the Nightmare in the jungle without looking back.

Take, for example, the wave just now.

A normal LeBlanc, seeing Kassadin come top, might think of finding a bush to use her E to ambush him and unleash her ultimate. But Li Yi chose to direct Jarvan IV to counter-jungle, while he himself used his scanner to clear all vision in the blue side's top jungle.

"How about the support gank mid? This LeBlanc keeps racking up Mejai's Soulstealer stacks, it's getting a bit hard to contain." Athena noticed that the LeBlanc's WQ combo back in lane had cleared a whole wave of minions, probably because she got an assist from both top and bottom lanes in those twenty seconds and stacked two more Mejai's Soulstealer stacks.

"No need. We have Braum and Ashe. If this LeBlanc without Flash dares to come up in team fights, we'll control her to death. It's easy to handle."

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"If we're not friends, is it really that easy to handle?"

After finally making it to the team fight, watching LeBlanc fly around like a mosquito, AmazingJ, who had been under pressure all game, slowly typed two question marks.

In the eyes of LPL viewers.

When LeBlanc is mentioned, most people immediately think of Rookie's perfectly executed skill combos, delivering high burst damage with incredibly fast combos. Or, like Icon, who uses his W to switch positions three times, constantly kiting the enemy in team fights.

But what exactly is "mosquito flow"?

Li Yi's current build: Hextech Gunblade, Lich Bane, and a Killing Ring that has been stacked to six layers.

As the IM team had envisioned, if LeBlanc dared to use her W to step on their face or raise her hand to throw her E, they could seize the opportunity during this poke gap to apply a slow or control, and then focus fire to kill her instantly.

After all, Li Yi didn't even bring Flash.

But Li Yi's LeBlanc not only doesn't use W to step on the face, doesn't use E, and doesn't even need to wait for the mark to explode.

He would use W to close the distance when he found an opportunity, and then use AQ plus Hextech Gun to harass his opponent while maintaining the maximum range of his basic attack. This small combo left his opponent with less than half a second to react.

Since AmazingJ used Titan to flank and turn the tide against WE in the decisive game of last year's gauntlet, he has developed a path dependency on flank tactics in team fights.

But this one.

He realized he didn't even have a chance to flank them.

Li Yi's LeBlanc was always positioned on the flank, because the damage from AQ followed by Hextech Gunblade and triggering Thunderlord's Decree was already quite high. Before the average Kennen could even establish a foothold, his health had already dropped by nearly half.

"Should we engage him? AJ, force his position, I'll R LeBlanc's shadow to return." Seeing that the enemy was constantly poking and harassing before the team fight, IM's team commander Jinjiao had no choice but to initiate.

But Li Yi was prepared.

As the Ice's [Magic Crystal Arrow] shot out from the blind spot and flew towards the Demoness at an angle that was almost impossible to dodge, Li Yi pressed RR.

A clone appeared in front of W's return position, accurately blocking IM's initial strong initiation.

"Wow, IM's only initiating skill has been blocked!"

Miller quickly followed up: "So LeeE anticipated that Ashe would engage on him, and placed RR's clone in the arrow's flight path before W could return?"

"IM can't afford to delay any longer; Gnar on the sideline is about to break through!"

"Nightmare turns off the lights, Kennen flashes in!"

Because of Li Yi's constant pressure on the flanks, even if Kennen flashed, he could only barely graz the edges of the other EDG players. On the contrary, only Li Yi took the full damage of the [Secret Art! Thunder Prison].

"Kennen was actually quite weak in this game, and Nightmare entered the fray trying to finish off LeBlanc." After glancing at Kennen's items, Miller roughly understood why LeBlanc's health hadn't dropped significantly.

"LeeE still won't grant Weakness?"

"The Weakness debuff was applied to Kassadin who entered the fray later!"

LeBlanc, who had taken the full force of IM's top, mid, and jungle ultimates, finally fell, leaving a golden slowing effect on Kassadin who was flanking her before she died.

Although Kassadin is suspected of having lifesteal on other lanes, at this point it's only 23 minutes in, and Kassadin with only a level 2 ultimate is far from being as agile as a level 16 Kassadin.

Faced with Thresh's threatening hook, he could only use Flash to escape.

In this way, IM used up all the skills that posed a threat to Kalista, although the Glacial duo of Ashe and Braum eventually traded kills with Kalista.

However, Mingkai, adhering to the principle of "EDG never gets wiped out," had already withdrawn from the battlefield and gone to the bottom lane to help Gnar take down the tower.

Twenty-seven minutes.

With the bottom lane inhibitor turret already destroyed, Kassadin, relying on lifesteal to reach level sixteen by gathering minions from both lanes near the inhibitor turret, finally managed to reach level sixteen. But it seemed that the gods had unleashed divine punishment upon all four-protect-one compositions.

Seeing that EDG was about to rush Baron Nashor, Nightmare turned off the lights and entered the Baron pit to try to steal it. Kassadin also used his ultimate to enter the Baron pit in the dark, but was slapped away by Baron Nashor's tentacle.

With the help of Thresh and LeBlanc's crowd control, this hero, who had reached level 16 and whose enemy base was automatically exploding, died on the spot without even having to use Flash.

The remaining players were already underdeveloped, and after they fought their hardest to take down EDG's mid and jungle, they could only watch helplessly as the remaining players, with the Baron buff, pushed down the crystal.