Chapter 71: Wink, Tank the Turret!
"Brother Xian, three are heading top, be careful!" Rookie, who was already rotating toward the bottom lane, warned in the voice chat.
"I'm on my way!" Xun commanded the Gragas, casually hurrying toward the top lane.
"No need to come," Cheng Xian said in a deep voice.
Huh?
Xun was slightly stunned upon hearing this.
Is this guy trying to pull off a one-v-three again?
Yet he was playing Soraka. Compared to champions with high outplay potential like Darius or Twisted Fate, a Soraka's plays seemed impossible to pull off flashy maneuvers with. Furthermore, the burst damage from Spider and Lissandra was extremely high.
Still, thinking about it carefully, this guy always seemed to create miracles.
Maybe this time too...
"Good luck, Brother Xian! Outplay them!" Just as Xun finished speaking, he suddenly saw a purple light ignite on Soraka's body.
At that exact moment, Lwx's eyes widened as he stared fixedly at the screen, looking as though he had seen a ghost.
"No one can bail out the bot lane for FPX!"
"Quick, go tank the tower!" Cheng Xian urged.
Shouldn't a support stay in the bot lane?
"Why is this guy acting completely different from our analysis in the lounge?!" Liu Qingsong said angrily.
"The chance has come! A chance for a comeback!" Lwx's gaze burned with intensity as the sniper rifle in Caitlyn's hands loaded a critical strike bullet.
"Such a massive blunder this wave!"
Not only were they facing the frantic damage output from Caitlyn and Rakan, but they also had to deal with the turret's wrath.
Looking over at the position of the tri-brush.
They took the bait!
The sacrifice-the-ADC tactic was always as reliable as ever, no matter the situation.
"Kill Kaisa first! Kill Kaisa!!"
Suddenly, Shaqima changed his mind entirely, channeling a Teleport straight down to the bottom lane.
Countless 2v4s, 1v3s, escaping 1v5s, securing quadra kills 1v4s.
Yet with Kaisa tanking the turret, it became extremely dangerous. As the core sustained damage dealer, Kaisa falling meant the tower dive was a failure.
Gasps of astonishment erupted from the caster desk.
"Damn it! Why doesn't this guy follow any conventional script?!" Doinb cursed in absolute rage.
He was just a little cutie.
"If Kaisa dies, the tower dive fails!"
The commentators were completely dumbfounded.
As the staff in Soraka's hands waved, an EQ combo landed instantly on Caitlyn.
Lwx had been quietly farming under the turret, occasionally glancing at the situation in the top lane.
"Don't do it, Chicken, let Wink tank the tower!"
Innumerable purple void rays erupted from the strange apparatus on her shoulders, flooding toward the enemy duo.
Yet upon realizing that the enemy Kaisa was tanking the turret, his expression lit up instantly.
With a Soraka this fed, her Mejai's Soulstealer fully stacked, wherever she went, wouldn't a bunch of devoted followers be trailing behind to escort her?
With this thought in mind, his vigilance naturally loosened slightly.
After losing the previous game, FPX had quickly re-analyzed the operational traits of the player Shaqima during the intermission.
In the end, Wink grunted and prepared to compromise, though he still felt the need to offer a final bit of defiant backtalk.
Thus, this second three-man dive materialized.
During this sequence, Caitlyn managed to sidestep Orianna's QRW combo using Flash.
Making FPX's fully charged punch land straight into empty air.
Simultaneously, the defensive turret flashed a menacing red light, firing a laser blast directly into Kaisa.
At this moment, Orianna sprinted forward with Ghost active, relying on her Flash to ready herself as the primary tower tank.
Right before leaving, he warmly added: "Xun, take all the top lane minions you want, don't be polite with me!"
Cheng Xian quickly added another remark.
"From the blue side observer vision provided by the director, we can see that Soraka teleported by abusing the edge of the fog of war. The FPX members haven't noticed yet!"
"This Kaisa???"
How could a person possibly be without flaws?
Even if he had no flaws, his strongest point might just be his weakest point.
This guy seemed exceptionally reckless, possessing almost zero team awareness.
"Once Kaisa dies, they have no damage output!"
He rushed toward the krugs in FPX's bottom lane.
"Such a slippery old fox."
Whatever happened to the manly 1v3 top lane showdown?
What the hell! This guy ran way too fast!
Where was the justice in this?
Wink wanted to burst into tears internally.
Didn't you see he was playing an adorable little Soraka?!
Soraka is a support.
You absolute coward!
Of course, had Cheng Xian known Doinb's thoughts, he would have undoubtedly shrugged and replied:
"Who ever heard of making the ADC tank the turret during a dive?"
Damn it!
They got tricked by a lure!
Putting his mechanics aside.
"Facing a three-man gank, Shaqima used a Teleport straight to the bot lane! Wait... I honestly thought he was about to make a play."
"Is Lü Bu fierce? But that's merely the bravery of a common soldier; an inability to adapt ultimately sealed his fate."
Hearing this, the expressions of the three FPX members top lane turned gloomy and uncertain.
"Alright!" Liu Qingsong agreed through gritted teeth, stepping forward and rapidly spamming his R key.
Sure enough, after a triple-speed replay, the FPX members indeed spotted a recurring pattern.
Running away?
Yet Cheng Xian only smiled faintly.
However, Wink's Kaisa had it much worse.
With this Soraka running off...
FPX's bot lane duo naturally assumed that since three of their teammates were cornering the top lane, the majority of the enemy team must be lingering up there.
A certain part of their brains flooded with blood, stripped entirely of rationality.
Seeing the ADC tanking the turret felt like seeing a completely naked girl lying on a bed beckoning you over.
"Die!" A shot locked onto Kaisa and fired.
Icathian Rain!
No, he wasn't fond of running away; he preferred courting danger, dedicated to pulling off unbelievable plays.
The vision he had secured had vanished into thin air.
Bro, I have no idea why, but it feels like everything you say makes complete sense.
Yet after securing only two minion kills.
The bottom lane duo instantly cleared out the already sparse minion wave.
Besides, how on earth was he supposed to farm the top lane wave now? Three enemies were converging on him.
Yet the Kaisa deep inside enemy territory was also dishing out damage.
It was precisely at this moment that his weakness was exposed.
Suddenly, Soraka charged out from the krug brush behind them!
Kaisa pressed the offensive as well, while Orianna traversed the river to regroup with the team.
Rakan's body was coated in a dazzling golden light, his movement speed surging as he lunged forward.
Their initial analysis had been flawless.
Turn left!
"IG messed up here! Why is a Kaisa with no Flash and no R tanking the turret?" Remember widened his eyes, his expression grave.
Gritting his teeth, he maneuvered Kaisa two steps forward, casually unleashing his Q ability.
Therefore, I have arrived!
"Go! We can kill, we can kill!" Cheng Xian commanded urgently in the voice comms.
"I'm here! We can fight this!" Cheng Xian spoke up in the comms.
Caitlyn's health continued to plummet, crossing the halfway mark in a flash.
Soon, Soraka landed her Teleport in the bottom lane.
Cheng Xian: "Actually, it's not about lacking trust; it's just that the more mature you are, the more you realize the ADC isn't the carry."
And it was precisely this fleeting opportunity that Cheng Xian managed to seize!
"Shit! Wasn't this Soraka top lane? What the hell were you three ganking?" Lwx screamed.
Oh, right, it was their blood vessels. Their blood vessels were dilated.
After seeing the top lane initiate a three-man gank on Soraka, he had felt secure enough to farm in peace.
"Jayce had already used his Teleport to return to lane after dying earlier! Lissandra's Teleport is also on cooldown."
"As long as there are numbers, he wants to make a play! He won't leave! He can't adapt! That's his biggest flaw!" Steak had slammed his hand down firmly at the time, stating with absolute certainty.
Running away right in full view...
He used Teleport straight to the bot lane instead.
Denying him minion farm was one thing, but making him tank the turret on top of that?
A passive-empowered headshot bullet blasted out at high velocity, spinning frantically as it hurtled viciously toward Kaisa!
Even if they ended up trading one for one, they could at least secure two kills.
"You guys are still not mature enough! You actually doubt the impact of an ADC with a mythic item!"
"Huh?" Wink froze. "Motherfucker, I'm the ADC! And I have no ultimate and no Flash."
No matter how you looked at it, this wasn't a bad trade.
Lwx was still cursing internally.
They had completely fallen for a vision differential!
"If one three-man gank fails, try twice. If twice fails, try three times. Don't be fooled by his flashy plays; everyone makes mistakes!"
The timing for the three-man bot lane dive had been decent originally; either Soraka or the Orianna with Flash should have tanked the turret. After all, Orianna was a burst mage who could unload her spell rotation and immediately Flash away.
As they spoke, Soraka stepped out from the bottom lane tri-brush.
"They messed up!! There was a communication breakdown regarding who tanks the turret! Kaisa is tanking!"
Always chasing ultimate mechanics, dancing repeatedly on the razor's edge.
After all, the core of those three was Kaisa!
Soraka's only damage tools were her Q and E; much like Orianna, her sustained combat capability wasn't particularly high.
"Wink is going down!"
Wink: "..."
The Soraka, whose Mejai's was already fully stacked, hadn't even backed to buy items yet.
"What the hell?"
"Want to dive? Forget three, I'll make at least two of you stay here!" Liu Qingsong muttered, eyeing his ultimate and Flash, both of which were ready.
In the span of barely two seconds, Kaisa's health plummeted to a dangerous threshold.
Teleporting?
Looking closer.
Everyone had been thinking along those lines.
Who the hell agreed to that?!
Yet the damage output was already formidable; a single spell rotation instantly chunked away nearly half of Caitlyn's health bar.
"Clear the wave!! Clear the wave quickly! They're diving!" Lwx screamed in the voice comms.
Xun stared in utter disbelief.
Presently, in the game.
The three-man gank top had failed, and instead, a three-man counter-gank had erupted in the bot lane.
Unsurprisingly, that single headshot would directly erase Kaisa's remaining health bar.
Though it only charmed Kaisa, that was more than enough.
"Kaisa's health is instantly full?!"
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