You actually want me to...

He had seen this kind of situation before.

I've not only seen it, but I've seen a lot of it. In the early years, LPL vs. LCK games were all about this kind of slow, ruthless gameplay, a unique style of operation that LCK teams excelled at. This game was like DK finding their ancestor and picking it up again.

"However, TES also kept the economic gap very close, and Knight's performance even surprised me. Has he suddenly unlocked his full potential?"

Knight's performance with Crystal Maiden was truly terrifying, managing to keep the economic gap between the two teams so evenly matched.

People only know that he started with Earthbound Spirit, but they don't know how much he actually wants to get rid of this bad title. Of course, this is a habitual issue left over from his personal playstyle, and he can't actually do it on his own.

So why did it work again this time?

It's very simple, because TES has three commanders.

Roland controlled the overall direction, JKL focused on key moments, and the remaining Haro had nothing to do after the 15-minute shelf life. He couldn't steal minions on the lane, and he had to let the AD carry farm the jungle. With nothing to do, he just stayed there remotely controlling Knight, except to act as a follower, protect him, ward, and farm.

What you thought was a 1v1?

Hmph, didn't expect that, did you? My Golden Left Hand has already awakened an external avatar. This is a combined evolution!

As for whether it will give us away?

Just kidding. There's plenty of footage to edit from the hero microphone in the semifinals. Nobody's going to waste time cutting that out. Even if they did, not everyone would see the hero microphone footage. At least for a significant number of people, the news of his successful transformation might spread after this match.

With that in mind, Knight became even more obedient.

The direct consequence of pairing a top-tier fighter with a competent one-on-one commander is that no matter how many times DK tries to initiate a rhythm, they will find that the opposing mid and jungle duo can always disrupt their plans first. This feeling has been lingering around DK since the third game of their duel.

[Knight's play this game was really outrageous. I even saw him abandon the minion wave and inexplicably run off to support, something I've never seen before.]

Is it possible that the mid-lane position is occupied by the Prophet?

[I'm getting a bit confused. Yesterday, EDG's match was like TES's, and today TES's match is like EDG's, right? What's with this "Debt King Oub" thing?]

But the vanguard has given up again. DK is clearly going to push towers and initiate team fights with you. You can't avoid it for long.

Indeed.

The omnipresence of Crystal Maiden and Blade of the Ruined King caused DK some discomfort for a short time, but in a game, there are always some inevitable waves of momentum that cannot be avoided. Just like this wave where DK took the Rift Herald, but no one from TES came to defend it, which meant that TES would not have much room to fight back in the next big wave of momentum.

To reiterate, DK's favorite playstyle in Season 11: Emergency Assembly

As the name suggests, it means quickly gathering a lane after obtaining the second Herald and starting to push forward, either with a second tower or an outer tower plus a second tower. This kind of rapid gathering in a short period of time looks easy from a top-down perspective, but in a match, it is quite difficult to gather quickly while ensuring that other lanes are safe, heroes have their ultimate abilities available, and players have all their summoner spells.

But DK can do it anyway.

This perfectly matched the rhythm arranged by the coach before the match, which finally eased Xu Xiu's anxiety a little. The first Herald was just a stepping stone. The real show for DK would begin with the second Herald. Once they got the Herald, Graves would split push on one lane, while the other four would take the Herald and push another lane. TES would have no chance to send anyone to defend, especially since they had intentionally let their AD follow up with the top lane to catch up on development.

It wasn't a clever scheme, but a brutal killing!

The ambush that led to the decisive BO5 game is about to reach the final move.

But then, at that very moment... an accident happened.

DK is indeed a team capable of quickly assembling, but that doesn't mean they're the only team in the entire World Championship that can do this.

At the cost of exposing the positions of Crystal Maiden and Blade of the Ruined King, what was hidden behind this was that while the four-man DK team was sniping the vanguard, the three-man TES team decisively launched a sniping attack on Khan's Graves!

As an experienced veteran player, Khan was actually quite careful not to push the minion wave too far.

But... TES's support is Rakan!

For this ambush, Harvey and Knight went all out to make their presence felt for several minutes, just so that their brilliance could overshadow the movements of the others. The most difficult part of the ambush was not whether Rakan could activate his ultimate, but whether DK could prevent the AD from noticing the disappearance of the three of them. If any one of them was missing, the remaining two would be at risk of being counter-killed or escaping when fighting Graves.

And now,

Xayah had already entered the support range, and the four opponents on the front did not notice anything amiss at first. Even though the only remaining player, Hanzi, was already quite steady, he still underestimated the determination of the TES team to take him down.

From the moment Graves stepped across the river, he had already entered Roland's initiation zone.

"The moment I activate it, the entire world will tremble!!!"

Have you ever been driven at the speed of light?

The standard movement speed of Xayah with five-speed boots is achieved through a combination of Rakan's Crown, R, E, Flash, a few quick steps, and W for an instantaneous dash attack.

Its speed was so fast that even the director, who had been keeping an eye on Luo's position, briefly lost focus for a second. When the camera moved downwards following Luo's direction, the golden flash had already appeared steadily beside Graves.

In an instant, the entire audience was stunned!

"So fast!"

As the one who faced this "light" directly, Khan is the most qualified to speak on the matter and is also the most shocked, because he was unable to react in time.

Or.

If he didn't believe that the other side could reach him from such a distance, then why did he try to avoid it?

The moment the team fight was successfully initiated, the charm and knock-up debuff status bar appeared in the lower left corner of Graves' status bar. However, Khan himself did not feel panicked or afraid at all.

Just kidding.

At such a distance, a Xayah without mobility and a Gwen with only unit movement, at most only one top laner can reach the battlefield to deal damage. Unless all three come at once and he takes turns feeding in a 1v1 situation, he even wants to kill them all.

All thoughts were fleeting, but when he calmed himself down and prepared to wait for the control to end so he could start operating, the scene before his eyes slapped him in the face. He saw that the two opponents, Xayah and Gwent, whom he thought could never keep up with Rakan's initiation speed, were rapidly approaching him at a speed he couldn't comprehend.

Right beneath Luo's feet, unnoticed by Khan, a straight path imbued with some kind of mysterious buff was faintly shimmering.

Final Chapter: Chapter Seventy-Two: My Turn, Flip the Card!

"A genius's idea."

After spending a long time formatting the words, only these five simple words were finally uttered from Ji De's mouth.

There's no other reason than Roland's ideas are just too unconventional.

From their omniscient perspective, they could clearly see the core factor causing all of this—the steel compound.

+300 health, 25% resilience, and increased size are what most people know, but it also has a second attribute: [Iron Road], which leaves a path behind it when moving, providing allies with 15% movement speed.

That alone might not be enough, but don't forget about the crown jewel, [Shura's War Song]!

Both Xayah and another allied hero gain 25% movement speed, which, when combined, brings Xayah's movement speed to a considerable level. Xayah and Gwen, one relying on running and the other on running plus mobility, managed to reach the center of the battlefield in the shortest possible time.

With three people working together, even the Graves, who is invincible in a one-man show, would have some trouble dealing with them.

Two women are one thing, but there's also a man in there. In this kind of multiplayer game, let alone a pure manly male gunner, even if you brought Tentacle Mom, she probably wouldn't be able to handle it... Well, Tentacle Mom is a special case, she really can handle it.

An unprecedented long-range attack occurred, and less than three seconds after DK secured the Vanguard, the information about Graves' death appeared prominently on the screen.

The perfect breakthrough point.

Holy crap, this is amazing!

[Brother Hanzi truly deserves a hundred points, I give him a hundred points for this!]

Whether LPL can have an all-LPL finals match ultimately depends on my Hanzi's performance (doge)

[Steel Mixture, this build by the King is truly a gambler's gamble.]

500 yuan!

That's 500 gold for the support role! He didn't even buy a control ward for that 500 gold, and instead sold the control ward he already had to barely scrape together the 500 gold. If this gank fails, his support's economy will explode on the spot.

But he won his gamble.

The death of Graves meant that DK's plan to quickly expand their advantage through a two-pronged push had failed. However, Genshin Impact was not to be underestimated. After realizing that something was wrong, instead of disbanding the team, he directly moved the army to TES's mid lane.

We currently have four players on our side, while the enemy only has Crystal Maiden and Blade of the Ruined King in the front, and even including Gwent with her Teleport ability, there are only three of them.

As long as they are fast enough and play decisively enough, they can quickly destroy towers and even force the enemy top laner to use a teleport.

The battles between top teams often hinge on those fine margins.

"They're here."

"Will it be able to make it?"

"Yes! Let them lead the charge! Don't stop them."

Since they had already planned to take advantage of Graves, how could they not have considered the aftermath?

DK's team acted quickly, immediately activating their Herald after a rapid turn to the mid lane. Huang didn't hesitate either, decisively activating TP towards their mid-lane's second tower.

"Such a fast line switching!"

Off the field, the EDG players were all crouching low. The lane switching and decision-making of both teams were so fast that even they, watching from a god's-eye view, were speechless. They couldn't even imagine whether they would still be able to sit in the finals seat if they had met either of these two teams in the semifinals or quarterfinals.

"With the Bomber, the outer tower definitely can't be defended. Let's see if the second tower can hold out."

"No way, three people. If they dare to engage DK, they dare to fight. I don't think TES can defend against it."

"But... what if there are four?"

Everyone thought Roland had done everything he could. Whether it was the speed boost from the Iron Elixir or the team fight initiation with the long-distance raid, he had done even better than a support could at this point.

The dividing line between genius and eccentric genius lies here.

Genius is the limit as perceived by ordinary people, while a prodigy is someone who surpasses that limit.

Faced with this predicament, he finally revealed the trap card that had been lying in wait on the field since the start of the game – the Predator.

When the wolf head symbol appeared above the heads of everyone in the DK arena, both Xu Xiu and Yuan Shen Ge stared wide-eyed at that moment.

Predator.

How could they have forgotten about predators?!

From the start of the game until now, Rakan's Predator talent has hardly been activated. Even when roaming and ganking, he seems to have forgotten about this skill and it has not been triggered. Who would have thought that this skill, which is ignored by most people, would suddenly have such an amazing effect!

Rakan with Boots of Speed ​​already possesses a high movement speed, while the Predator rune grants an additional 60% movement speed when moving towards an enemy champion within a 3000-yard range, lasting up to 10 seconds.

It had just displayed a high burst of movement speed, but now it has gained additional movement speed.

Even though Rakan's ultimate ability is no longer a threat and is greatly reduced, he doesn't need it. With the second tower behind him, all he needs to do is balance the numbers. Once the numbers are balanced and the opponent is still trying to force an engagement, TES just needs to stall.

Once the AD arrives, we can then wipe out the DK!

"How can there be such a support player!"

Using Predator to rush through the map as a killing move is an absurd difference. It's like seeing a pro player in a special mode using Kindred's ultimate to demolish towers everywhere. Is that how you use Lamb's Breath?

Genshin Impact was very unwilling, but no matter how unwilling he was, reason made him direct his teammates to disperse quickly.

Luo will definitely be able to come to the rescue, and the steel potion under Luo's feet is still in effect. So, although Xayah's arrival may not be as timely, it will definitely be fast. Due to the problem of the 15% movement speed bonus, they also cannot calculate the time when Xayah will arrive based on experience.

The characteristic of LCK teams is: if they're not 100% certain, they might as well not do it at all.