Chapter 64: I Really Didn't Mean to Show Off! Luck Started It First!
Not only lwx was deeply trapped in a state of self-doubt.
The entire FPX roster fell silent.
Including the sparse audience in the seating area consisting of staff and logistics personnel.
The casters on stage.
Everyone in the livestream.
Even major competitive regions overseas watching the battle for the LPL seed spots.
Were all left in absolute shock by Twisted Fate's stunning, ultimate kiting and his heaven-defying critical-hit luck.
However, there was no time left for them to marvel.
In-game, Twisted Fate's health bar remained in extreme danger!
Even after he used Flash to soak up the experience from the low-health cannon minion, leveling up to 10 and barely surviving Caitlyn's headshot execution.
Caitlyn let out a soft whimper, collapsing to her knees before the turret.
Everyone was left dumbfounded!
It took a full ten seconds for them to recover.
The Tarot card flashed with a dazzling golden light that brought near-despair to Caitlyn.
"I kicked him!! Right in the face, right in the face!! Burst him down!!!" Tian shouted excitedly.
Auto-attack!
"Unbelievable! A red card slows three people to create distance, four basic attacks take down the Blind Monk! Triumph and dual-vamp relentlessly pull his health bar back up, and then he flashes right into Caitlyn's face, solely to secure the cannon minion for a level-up while buying time for his W cooldown to refresh. His rapid card-picking instantly locked in a yellow card!! The gods have favored him this entire game! He didn't waste his luck in vain! Instead, he combined it with his own mechanical prowess! This series of plays! Every single one of them executed here is worthy of making the weekly top plays compilation! But what defies imagination is... these brilliant plays were pulled off by a single person! And executed entirely within a ten-second skirmish!!"
The fifteen-minute mark.
FPX's sudden acceleration descended with the crushing weight of Mount Tai.
However, merely securing a single inhibitor turret lead and failing to take down FPX's top lane crystal was still not enough to single-handedly decide the outcome of the entire match.
Syndra could execute the E-Q combo, which was faster and more covert than Q-E, leaving almost no reaction time for the opponent.
Could he truly pull off such a maneuver?
...
Yet his health plummeted once again to a precarious double-digit figure starting with a one.
"Mommy loves you ahhhhh!!"
Wink and TheShy finally respawned, but stood frozen in the fountain for a full five seconds, unable to process what had just happened.
"Caitlyn is locked down under the turret! The current inhibitor turret has already accumulated massive damage!"
Flicking his fingers, he pressed W twice.
The sheer entertainment value of this game had exceeded everyone's expectations.
Thanks to Twisted Fate's desperate defense, their bottom lane's low-health inhibitor turret was preserved and even slowly regenerating health.
Purely because of this single play, iG instantly flipped the game from a deficit back into an advantage!
Twisted Fate, who hadn't even landed yet, was about to eat Syndra's Q-E double-hit.
Down in the audience, belated applause finally erupted. Though numbering only a few dozen, their cheers sounded like a roaring mountain torrent and a crashing sea.
"Nice kick! I'll follow up with the CC, I'll follow up with the CC!" Doinb shouted in response while his fingers snapped the E-Q keys.
Yet FPX was retreating step by step, their mental state already shifting.
Earlier, they had been played like toys by Twisted Fate in the enemy base, but now, hidden deep within this brush, playing a four-man gank—cough, meaning four people PK-ing one guy.
"Liu Qingsong! You son of a bitch!! I'm going to carve you up, chop you down, and mince you into pieces——!!!" An angry ape-like howl burst through FPX's team voice chat.
A sonic wave pierced out from the shadows, striking the completely unguarded Twisted Fate.
Liu Qingsong: "...... There's no need to go that far."
Surrounded by three people, did you really think Twisted Fate could walk away?
Soon, a Thresh hook flying out from the shadows of the fog of war gave him the final answer.
Every player occasionally experiences one or two moments of absolute brilliance.
Cheng Xuan kept his eyes locked on the screen without even a moment to breathe, his fingers flying across the mouse to initiate another round of frantic, limit-testing mechanics!
The boost in his attributes still hadn't made him directly equal to a professional player.
In the mid lane, where Ryze and Syndra had previously been deadlocked, their bodies almost collided, yet neither dared to initiate the first strike.
He was dead for sure!
Right at that moment, a faint chime echoed suddenly in the back of his mind.
To be honest, even Cheng Xuan himself couldn't quite believe it.
Yet Cheng Xuan had to admit, those previous sequences of micro-adjustments relied on far more than just luck alone.
His Q skill instantly canceled the auto-attack recovery animation, followed seamlessly by another basic attack!
In truth, by this point, even without taking such desperate risks, the pendulum of victory would have slowly swung toward iG over time.
"Shaqima still hasn't given up on outplaying them with the very last sliver of his health bar! He instantly locked in a yellow card! Using his attack speed advantage to stun Caitlyn!"
The audience in the seats stared blankly at the mega-screen, while the three casters at the desk sat with their mouths open, speechless for a long time.
At any cost, kill Twisted Fate!
Standing in the fountain, Cheng Xuan lowered his head slightly, gazing at the patterns on his palms.
Challenger-tier streamers occasionally got solo-killed by lower-tier friends in normal games.
Relying on his item and level advantage, Cheng Xuan effortlessly forced a triple kill with his Twisted Fate!
However, the squishy Caitlyn simply could not withstand the rampaging damage of the escalating turret combined with Twisted Fate's fully stacked Conqueror rune.
In standard teamfights, FPX had almost no chance of winning anymore, and a Twisted Fate coming off a quadra kill would scale even faster.
What a pity; he wouldn't be able to get off another basic attack.
The taut nerves finally relaxed at this very moment, and his palms were trembling faintly.
Second-cast Q to close the distance, R-Flash!
The fluid, flawless execution directly kicked Twisted Fate into the tri-brush.
"But I will grow even stronger!"
Right now, his mission was to defend the base... and kill everyone!
"Xuan-bao!! My superman!!"
Cheng Xuan had been wondering why his luck value had increased by another 1% when he hadn't even done anything.
"Holy crap! Damn!!"
Xun used the Herald to break the top lane tier-2 tower and pushed all the way forward, completely unaware that he had taken two shots from the inhibitor turret.
Even if the Jade Emperor himself descended today, you're dying right here!
Earlier, his goal had been simple: run!
If he could trade one for one, it was a win.
Deafening like rolling thunder, as if trying to blow the roof off the entire arena.
This Twisted Fate play was even more heart-pounding than his earlier five-man escape using the machine.
Clang!
As the golden tarot card was hurled forward, Caitlyn was locked down under the turret.
"Who knows the world will be flipped upside down, just as we gaze at the Big Dipper in the south! This is the magic of League of Legends; until the very last second, you never truly know what changes might happen!" Remember channeled his inner Wang Duoduo, borrowing the poet persona to sigh aloud as the pace of the game momentarily slowed.
He... really grown into someone who could hold his own?
"Perhaps not yet. Compared to true professional players, relying solely on this kind of extraordinary performance won't get me far," Cheng Xuan chuckled softly, shaking his head.
"Several times at death's door! Several times on the brink! Relying on one breathtaking, limit-testing play after another, Shaqima managed to forcefully keep his health bar hovering above the line of death!"
Next, facing the FPX trio whose crowd-control skills were completely on cooldown.
Good luck was one aspect; enhanced mechanics were another.
"Hiss... This... once the luck value hits maximum, it really forces any absurd random event to rewrite itself..." Cheng Xuan scratched his head with a blank expression.
The caster desk was the first to regain its composure.
The flustered FPX members collectively brainstormed a decision that completely collapsed their position.
The four members of iG grouped up in the mid lane to whittle down the turret, while FPX sent only the Jax and Caitlyn to put up a token defense, leaving the trio of Blind Monk, Thresh, and Syndra to pull off something major!
"Hoo..." Cheng Xuan wiped the bead of sweat from his forehead, clicked to walk toward the fountain, and slumped backward into his gaming chair.
Quickly regaining his composure, he muttered to himself earnestly.
[Ding! Your luck value has increased by +1%! Your luck value has reached 100%! In this match, any random event will inevitably be rewritten into a lucky event!]
Instead, he was saved by Thresh's hook, which yanked him clean out of Syndra's E-Q trajectory.
Everyone!
To take a step back, Twisted Fate was still under the knockback state from the Blind Monk and couldn't even issue commands.
"If you want to push down my base, please step over my dead body! But I'm terribly sorry! I don't feel like dying just yet! So you guys... aren't getting past!!" Remember strained his hoarse vocal cords, roaring at the top of his lungs.
His W cooldown had refreshed.
"At this speed, if you can dodge this with movement, you are definitely scripting!" Doinb thought with absolute conviction.
The plays were over, yet the venue remained dead silent.
Even if Lwx hammered his right mouse button, desperate to land that executing auto-attack the moment the stun wore off.
"Uh-oh... looks like I can't look cool for more than three seconds." Even Cheng Xuan began to panic inwardly.
In the end, it culminated with Twisted Fate defying the heavens in a 1v4 to split the mountain in half, bringing the curtain down on the match.
Forced to sidestep Syndra's Q-E!
From that moment on, not a single critical strike ever showed up again.
Right at that moment, inside the unwarded tri-brush.
Auto-attack!
Twisted Fate was splitting the bottom lane, smoothly taking down the enemy's bottom tier-1 turret.
"One against four! Quadra kill!! Shaqima used his own plays to define for us what it means to be a man who stands like a defense turret!"
His Twisted Fate hadn't even landed yet... how was he supposed to outplay this?
During all this, with the help of the Herald's very last sliver of health, Xun sneakily pushed down the top lane inhibitor.
My dear brothers from the opposing team, I really didn't mean to style on you guys this time!
It was luck that made the first move!
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Bang bang bang!!!
(End of this chapter)