LOL: What does "mid-lane hybrid expert" mean?

Chapter 86 Non-Fatal Brilliance

[Mid lane Jhin? ???]

[This... seems to make sense. It pushes lanes quickly, provides support, and even adds physical damage to the team?]

[Jhin mid lane is all about high stats and simple mechanics, and quite a few people play him in ranked games. Regular mages can't really out-trade him.]

The lineups for both sides have been finalized.

Blue side WE, top lane Shen, jungle Zac, mid lane Syndra, bot lane Varus and Lulu.

EDG (Red Team): Top lane Rumble, Jungle Nidalee, Mid lane Jhin, Bot lane Xayah and Rakan.

On the commentary panel.

Guan Zeyuan's voice still carried the surprise he hadn't had time to suppress: "EDG's last pick was Jhin for the mid lane — but thinking about it carefully, Jhin's wave clear ability is indeed not bad, and his long-range support skills have unique value in this version of the mid lane ecosystem."

Remember to chime in from the sidelines: "Although Coach Redmi picked strong heroes for every position on WE, for some reason, I feel like the lineup on the right side looks better."

"Perhaps the only weakness is that EDG's lineup lacks a traditional frontline; Rakan is more like a support—let's see how the players handle it!"

The game has finished loading, and both teams' heroes have spawned in Summoner's Rift.

In this match, Li Yi opted for a dual summoner setup of Flash and Cleanse.

Therefore, the talents "Insight" in the Resolve tree and "Veteran's Scars" which grants 50 health points are selected again. Combined with the health provided by Doran's Blade, this is enough to survive the early game when Syndra and Zac target each other.

Of course.

The primary skill must be "Touch of the Netherfire".

The stats for this talent are quite strange.

The 6.25% bonus AD and 2.5% bonus AP seem unreasonable at first glance.

However, upon closer examination, the equipment environment in this version is quite different from that of later versions: the designers at that time had not yet shown any malice towards high ability power equipment, the numerical value provided by mage equipment was quite generous, while the attack power of AD equipment was generally low.

But it's different for sick children.

His passive ability, Whisper, converts critical strike chance and attack speed, granting him significantly higher base attack damage than a typical AD carry, maximizing the benefits of Deathfire Grasp.

The first wave of minions converged in the mid lane.

Li Yi did not choose a conservative stance.

Jhin's 550-yard range is not advantageous against Syndra, and his slow attack speed and long attack animation make him vulnerable to being pokeed by Syndra's Q when last-hitting minions in the early game.

Therefore, Li Yi directly pushed forward from the other side of the minion wave.

Xiye reacted quickly, creating distance to prevent Jhin from auto-attacking, and then unleashed a spell orb, clearing out three low-health melee minions. However, Li Yi's intention had already been achieved: Syndra's first Q could only be used to clear minions, failing to simultaneously harass him.

Just as Syndra's Q skill entered its 6-second cooldown, Li Yi took advantage of the opportunity to auto-attack and finish off the ranged minion, firing his fourth bullet at the perfect moment.

Jhin's passive [Whisper] triggered a movement speed bonus after the fourth shot was fired. Taking advantage of this brief speed boost, he took a few small steps forward during the reload window, and after confirming that he was within auto-attack range, he initiated with AQ!

It hurts a little!

Xiye has maxed out the yellow fixed armor runes.

The problem is that League of Legends didn't have an adaptive damage mechanic at that time, so Deathfire Touch still dealt magic damage. Furthermore, mid-lane mages generally have low initial magic resistance, so this burn took away more than ten points of his health.

After several exchanges of blows in the mid lane.

Neither of the mid laners were in great form.

Syndra's advantage is that she can carry an extra health potion at the start with Doran's Ring, while Jhin can force Syndra out of position and miss her last hit with his fourth critical strike bullet that has an execute attribute.

at the same time.

The competition on the top lane was equally intense.

Rumble and Shen were almost constantly exchanging blows, pushing forward as soon as their skills were ready, showing no intention of peacefully farming.

The director's camera switched back and forth, and Guan Zeyuan also noticed this, his tone slightly surprised: "The top lane and mid lane have been constantly exchanging blows almost from the start of the game, which is a rather rare sight."

Remember to chime in: "EDG probably thinks Nidalee farms fast and can counter-gank first; on the other hand, WE thinks Zac can initiate unconventional ganks without needing to wait for lane control. Now it depends on what the two junglers decide!"

Should we focus on the top or the middle?

Condi was farming jungle monsters while switching screens.

Judging from the fact that both bottom lane duos arrived late before the minions, it's highly likely that both junglers had the same opening strategy.

Both are jungle clearing routes from bottom to top.

However, the advantage of WE's lineup is that both the top and mid lanes have initiation control, while the opposing EDG does not. With proper vision control, even if Nidalee farms quickly, she can only counter-gank.

"No rush, no rush————"

Zac was still leisurely farming single jungle monsters, while Mingkai's Nidalee had already taken down the low-health red buff following behind him with a single spear and headed straight for the river.

Should we focus on the top or the middle?

An Kai gave a wicked smile.

I've already picked Nidalee, so I'm definitely going to gank the enemy jungler!

"Xiang Renjie, you need to retreat first. Nidalee has entered the jungle, and Jhin has a long-range ability to keep people in place." Xiye's voice rang out in WE's internal voice channel.

The pre-arranged vision at the jungle entrance caught Nidalee's attention. What alerted Xiye even more was that the enemy Jhin threw out the Dancing Grenade and disappeared into the upper river bush after clearing the minions. To avoid repeating the same mistake as last time, he quickly pinged the jungler.

Logically, while Zac is slow at clearing single jungle monsters, only Elise in the jungle can really trouble him. Even if Nidalee lands her mark without crowd control, Zac can simply crouch and charge up his [Elastico Slingshot] to escape. The real problem is Jhin's long-range W to follow up with crowd control—

"I'll stop first, then you have to come."

Condi had also considered this. Seeing Nidalee appear in the jungle, he simply gave up his position in advance, intending to lure her to his mid lane.

However, to his surprise...

The leopard woman did not choose to take over the swamp frog.

Instead, he drew the aggro of the Swamp Frog, letting it slowly walk back into the pit to recover its full health, while he himself left the jungle without looking back.

Xiye, who had just finished clearing the minion wave with great effort, was trying to support his own jungle when he saw the same thing.

"So Jhin sneaked back to base, is that right?"

Xiye then realized: Li Yi's aggressive pushing of the lane in the first game had given him a mental cue, subconsciously assuming that Li Yi would go to support the jungler if he pushed the lane aggressively. But it turned out he simply went back to base to buy equipment?

[Thank goodness, the goal of this is just to disrupt Zac's jungle clearing and ganking rhythm; we absolutely mustn't let a fight break out.]

[That's true. Zac has a passive ability, and top and mid laners can teleport to his team to save him. This fight is definitely going to be a disaster.]

The factory has calmed down!

[It was orchestrated by the Cup King!]

There's actually a surprising piece of information here. Xiye probably hasn't faced Jhin before; right now, Jhin's level 1 Q + E combo isn't enough to clear the backline minions.

So Jhin leveled up his Q to push the lane at level 2, without even leveling up W?

[God of Chess, just how far have your eyes seen?]