Chapter 51: As soon as this match ended, Yasuo immediately put Malphite on his blacklist.

Once this match was over, Yasuo literally wrote Malphite into his ancestral genealogy!

The unstoppable Malphite completely cleaned out the Jarvan IV's upper three jungle camps.
Then, swaying and swaggering, he stepped into the river.
The Rift Herald stood quietly inside the Baron pit.
*Hey, I just refuse to take it, I'm just messing around.*
It was not because of any special strategy.
Low-tier players simply didn't like doing that thing, alright? You spend a full minute hitting it, half the time unable to poke the Herald's rear end. Right after you finally finish it, you turn around and see your own jungle camps completely devoured by your teammates.
Once bitten, twice shy.
Why always obsess over that damn Herald? It was far more practical to clear a few jungle camps instead.
His own upper jungle camp happened to respawn right at that moment!
Let's go!

Rookie looked pleadingly at Cheng Xuan.
This five-man knock-up, although thrilling—
Boom!
Lulu’s petite body bounced into the air from where she stood, and landed right back down.
The five members of FPX shuttled in an orderly fashion through the grass of their own jungle, and finally crouched down inside the small bush near the blue buff.
IG had gained a god-like substitute support, but FPX were not planning to give up yet.
The support-carry overlord had painstakingly endured for eight years; what was wrong with taking a blue buff on stage at this point?
Was it really that outrageous?

Meanwhile, within the FPX team.
However, after several instances of cooperation, a slight rift had clearly formed between the mid laner and the jungler.
As for himself—
The chain grazed right past her face, exposing Sylas!
But it didn't matter; five people camping one person, and they couldn't even kill him?
Support Liu Qingsong skillfully operated his signature champion, Rakan.
Rookie's mind went blank.
Yet FPX was, after all, a team that had once won the S9 World Championship. Although their performance this year was abysmal, their foundation remained.
The broad shoulders bore the weight of all five FPX members.
If this team fight was initiated perfectly, just the kill gold alone could instantly pull back 2,000 in net worth, followed by pushing down two enemy towers and devouring jungle resources.
The reason why disadvantageous games in solo queue were so easy to lose was simply because vision was too poor and the item disparity was too stark.
The mid lane Sylas could certainly come over.
In a position almost no one had noticed—
The disadvantage of falling behind in the jungle was that it became extremely difficult to control the tempo.

"The gold difference is about 5,000 or so; just one perfect team fight and we can turn it around." Liu Qingsong also cheered everyone up within the team.
A dark brown rocky figure stepped on a Blast Cone and vaulted into the Dragon pit.
Yet the location was right inside their own jungle; the enemy's backup wouldn't arrive that quickly.
Because FPX sacrificed their item completion timings just to ensure everyone carried two Control Wards plus the Farsight Alteration, their own jungle was illuminated practically as bright as day.
Five-man knock-up!!

"It's over! We've been ambushed! Where on earth did this Malphite pop out from?! This Lulu is a bait!" the FPX members shouted in panic.
Accompanied by Malphite taking down the Rift Herald with extreme reluctance under the team's command, smashing down FPX's mid lane first-blood tower, FPX's visible vision diminished by yet another layer.

As Malphite pressed forward menacingly, Jarvan IV trembled in fear and had to abandon the Scuttler, fleeing in retreat.
Although Varus was fragile, he still had both summoner spells available, instantly pulling back the distance upon landing with a D-F combo.

"One sword!"
Plus his own 300-gold value, totaling 800.
A shutdown gold bounty!
The other members, having hardly died in the early game, had also accumulated 150 to 300 gold bounties.

"Brother Xuan, it's me, it's me, I'm Twisted Fate..."
After a brief channeling countdown, he successfully vaulted into the FPX jungle.
As for the subsequent tempo, it naturally turned increasingly unfavorable for FPX.
"Stop talking, I'll let you have the next one. You know Malphite is a champion who burns tons of mana in the jungle; a single Q costs close to 500 mana."

Stepping on the vision of the river Scuttler to accelerate forward, hugging close to the thick wall, he pressed Hexflash.
Rakan's body was enveloped in a layer of rosy radiance, his speed driven to the absolute limit as he took a fierce, giant stride forward!
Grand Entrance!
His fingers hammered repeatedly on the R and W keys.

"Trying to run?" LWX reacted with lightning speed, bursting out from the bush to preemptively trigger the Blast Cone.
Tian could only choose to humiliatingly abandon the blue buff.
Just as Tian was hesitating—
It was Xun's support Lulu!
She looked as though she was coming to place vision, capturing the movements of FPX personnel.
Getting closer!
Malphite stood at 6-0-0!
Yet he hadn't invaded their own jungle either.
A hooded cloak, straw sandals, and a tattered blue cape fluttered violently in the wind.

"The Dragon is about to respawn. It's an Infernal Drake. Do we want it? If so, I'll go place vision." Liu Qingsong glanced at the minimap; the IG members had vanished from it.

"*Sorayaki! Pain!!*"
Protobelt! The distance surged forward by another notch!
A desperate dash across half the map!
"I am moving at full speed!"

Especially since they were powerless to even protect their own jungle monsters.
Fighting them head-on was a guaranteed loss, and if they tried to roam from the lanes, the bottom lane's slow-pushing wave was frozen right in front of the tower, making quick reinforcement impossible.
At this moment, a tiny, delicate figure sneaked around the upper corner above the Dragon pit, heading straight for the FPX blue buff area.
They couldn't win team fights, the jungle was locked down, and no matter where they walked, they were liable to encounter five burly men suddenly leaping out from a bush to deliver a severe beating.

Malphite could practically run amok in the jungle; after ganking top lane he would gank mid lane, and straight after mid lane he would head directly to bot lane.
Meanwhile, in the shadows of the Dragon pit—
Everyone shook their heads; their Farsight Alterations had all been used up when lighting up the lower jungle earlier.
The opponents had handed them a chance for a comeback!

Xun, emboldened by his team's massive lead, operated the little Lulu clutching her fairy wand, casting a speed buff on himself.
*Little cutie, run fast!*
With a swoosh, he darted in straight from the river.
Whenever they engaged, Malphite would fly out charging from the bush.
Lulu was getting closer and closer to them.
Looking across FPX's entire composition, Rakan and Jarvan IV had enough tankiness not to be instantly vaporized by Malphite, while Sylas and Jayce had also purchased Mercury's Treads to enhance their magic resistance.
In this patch, the movement speed and vision provided by the Scuttler in front of the Dragon pit were crucial, alongside offering a handsome amount of experience.

Lulu suddenly stood motionless.
Daddy!
An absolute jungle daddy!
Ah, support daddy, after all, the role was still the support position, just playing the game with a different style.
"Now is the time!" Cheng Xuan's gaze hardened as he forcefully pressed the R key.

Even though their own jungle was lit up, the river was completely submerged in pitch-black fog of war.
If the enemy found a flaw in their teammates, they could theoretically force an engagement and perhaps even pull off a solo kill in lane.
The benefit of doing this was naturally giving his teammates massive assistance in their respective lanes.

Looking at himself instead—the component for Goredrinker, Ironspike Whip...
Until the end of the laning phase, FPX played with utter misery.

Unstoppable Force!
"Crash into them!"
Couldn't catch him?
It didn't matter, he was just there to scare them, to let them know he was always nearby.

"FPX's vision control around their lower jungle is actually pretty good! It looks like they want to step-by-step push their vision into the Dragon pit. If handled well, this team fight gives them a chance to claw back some deficits." Jiejie praised upon seeing this.
Pardon me, I want it all!
Lulu's reaction was also freakishly fast; the moment she saw Rakan and Sylas show their heads, she swiveled her steps toward the Blast Cone.

Without Farsight Alterations, going directly into the river to place vision was somewhat risky.
Clearly, the gap between the two sides was not on the same order of magnitude.
"Everyone bring two Control Wards when leaving base, and swap all trinkets to Farsight Alterations!" The top, mid, and jungle players were all mentally collapsed. LWX, who was originally supposed to be a pure parasitic teammate, had no choice but to shoulder the banner of communication, commanding within the voice chat.

This was the second blue buff. According to tournament convention, it would normally be handed to the mid laner to sustain their mana pool and allow for faster wave-clearing, roaming, and supporting.
Taking a quick glance at Malphite's items: Hexbelt, Sorcerer's Shoes, and a Mejai's Soulstealer stacked to 10 charges.
"It's fine, Malphite's items aren't good enough yet to instantly burst us down! Just pull back and create distance later! Save as many as we can!!" LWX yelled.

Sylas's E skill flew out, and the instant his chains latched onto Lulu—
"Attack! Kill, kill, kill! Once we kill Lulu we're five against four! We have a chance to take the Dragon!!" LWX roared fiercely.
Ultimately, his feet tapped lightly on the ground, and his figure swept gracefully and agilely upward into mid-air!

A weathered, bearded swordsman wielding an ultra-sharp katana raised his head slightly.
"???"
For no other reason! The blue buff in the enemy's lower jungle had also respawned!

Tian's Jarvan IV had just finished eating the Wolves and Gromp, quietly waiting for the moment the blue buff popped out of the ground.
It was a textbook example of a jungler who used his lead to deny the enemy any breathing room.
*Damn it! Do you take me for someone who has never played Malphite?!*
*Your Malphite needs 500 mana for a single Q? Was your Malphite raised on a diet of growth vitamins?*

He pressed Tab and looked at the scoreboard.
Everyone was firing on all cylinders; even with Lulu shielding herself with her ultimate, her health bar was plummeting at the speed of light.
He had wanted to take advantage of Malphite clearing the blue buff to sneak around into the river and steal the bottom Scuttler.
"Does anyone else have Farsight?" Tian asked in a muffled voice.

He lowered his posture and sprinted at extreme speed, getting faster and faster, faster and faster.
"LWX, gorgeous!" Doinb shouted abruptly.
Yet regrettably, what happened next turned LWX's fingers instantly ice-cold, shattering the very last glimmer of hope for the entire FPX roster.

"He's here to place vision." The FPX members exchanged glances, a spark of hope igniting in their eyes.
It could patch up the trailing deficit by seven or eight out of ten.
But with a Malphite like this around, FPX was always walking on eggshells, terrified that the enemy was merely deliberately exposing a flaw to them.

The brightness of the jungle had seemingly become the final straw representing the dawn of a comeback in the hearts of everyone on FPX.
"A single thought!"

Sword techniques of blinding complexity knocked the five airborne targets up once more!
Yasuo's R skill: Last Breath!
Alright, this match's gameplay up to this chapter is pretty much wrapped up.
Time to write about a new state and fresh content; I need to think, think hard about it.
So today's updates end here. The two chapters combined add up to five or six thousand words.
Off to play games!
Love you guys,muwah~