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In the bottom lane river crab pit, Pray's Ashe has already fired her second Enchanted Crystal Arrow.

Just as the enemy Thresh was about to throw his lantern, it was interrupted by the slowing effect of the arrow. The support's Exhaust was applied to Lee Sin in time, and Lee Sin kicked out the second part of the Sonic Wave despite the slowing effect. The Dragon Tail effect exploded under Ashe's feet, kicking her towards the enemy ADC's gun.

But Pray reacted with lightning speed.

The Flash button was pressed within 0.1 seconds, and Ashe appeared at the edge of the river bush. The passive slow effect of her ultimate disrupted Lee Sin's pursuit rhythm. At this moment, her long-awaited second ultimate was finally ready. The arrow locked onto the enemy ADC the instant the bow was drawn—the Evankov who had used Flash to try to escape, now standing at the edge of the blind spot, thinking he had found a safe position.

Amidst the whistling sound of arrows piercing the air, Pray heard the sound of her own heartbeat.

The image in the center of the screen suddenly blurred, but became clear the moment the arrow hit—the golden control effect exploded on the enemy ADC, and just as our jungler's Smite Arrow arrived, the explosive damage sent both enemies to their deaths at the same time.

The commentators' gasps nearly lifted the roof off, but the director quickly switched to slow motion: the icy arrow pierced through the gaps in the triangular bushes, accurately hitting the explorer who thought he was safe, while the enemy Thresh's lantern was still flashing red as it cooled down.

The top lane turret groaned under Olaf's axe, and the sound of collapsing rocks rang out simultaneously with the kill notification sound in the bottom lane as the fifth strike landed.

Yuan Shen looked at the number of gold coins on the screen, and the Tiamat crafting progress bar was just full—this item would give him overwhelming lane control for the next ten minutes.

Smeb's Jayce got an assist in the bot lane, but when he saw the notification that the top lane turret had disappeared, a bitter feeling welled up in his heart.

He knew that although the TP support saved the ADC, it put the top lane at a complete disadvantage—Olaf was already 1.5 levels ahead of him, and the enemy jungler Xin Zhao was currently heading to the top lane with two buffs.

The battle for vision control in the river continued, with Azir and Taliyah pushing the lane in the mid lane. The air in the entire Rift was thick with the impending storm. Yuan Shen touched the new wound on his wristband, his battle axe twirling sharply in his palm.

He knew that the balance of the game had already shifted—the moment Jayce lost his Flash, the moment Pray's Ashe fired that arrow, the gears of victory had begun to slowly turn toward the red team.

Meanwhile, in the distant commentary booth, the analyst was flipping through the data panel: "Look closely, after Yuan Shen's Olaf killed Jayce, he chose the most extreme recall time - he bought equipment the instant the minion wave entered the tower, this move gave him at least 30 seconds of wave pushing advantage."

Pray's Ashe achieved a 75% ultimate skill hit rate in this match, which is an incredibly impressive statistic in professional play.

The night wind swept through the ruins of the turrets in the canyon, carrying the smell of gunpowder. Yuan Shen stared at the three kill icons on the minimap, suddenly recalling his master's words: "Top-tier top laners must learn to weave traps in silence. When the opponent thinks you're giving up the lane, you've already woven a suffocating net with every last hit and every glance."

At this moment, watching Jayce return to his lane looking disheveled, and watching Pray arrogantly place a control ward in the bottom lane, he finally understood—this game was never a one-man battle.

When the pressure from the top lane, the rhythm of the jungler, and the miraculous arrow from the bottom lane all come together, the victory symphony for the red team has only just begun.

Finally, Peanut even flashed his R and kicked back Jyra, not giving her any chance to react, and took her head. Now the head ratio between the two sides has reached 1:2. Both junglers have found their own rhythm in the early stage.

However, all things considered, Flash Wolves are at a greater disadvantage.

After killing Zyra, ROX also managed to control the Earth Dragon.

This provides a significant boost to tower pushing. Losing a dragon is a considerable loss for Flash Wolves. ROX's response in this match was quite good, demonstrating the judgment expected of a strong team. It's unrealistic for Flash Wolves to easily defeat ROX in this game.

In the shadows of the blue side's jungle, Peanut's Lee Sin knelt on one knee, his fingertips gently stroking the scar on his eye socket.

The green jungle item, retrieved from his recall mission, gleamed coldly in his backpack. The cooldown countdown for Smite flashed in the bottom right corner of the screen, mirroring his pounding heart. The coaching staff's instructions came through his headset: "Go top lane. Jayce needs jungle resources to mitigate his losses."

But as he stared at Olaf's arrogant lane pushing on the minimap, he suddenly remembered the figure who had completely invaded his jungle with Olaf in a scrim three days ago.

"They thought I would protect the road."

Peanut's Korean had a fierce tremor in it. The moment he punished the jungle monster, Lee Sin rolled towards the bottom lane river bush.

He knew that Yuan Shen's Olaf must be eyeing the lane with priority, and Ming Kai's Xin Zhao was likely warding at the Rift Herald. In conventional thinking, the losing jungler should protect the core carry, but the charm of professional matches often lies in illogical decisions.

Smeb, standing under the turret, wiped the sweat from his brow as Jayce's cannon-form basic attack precisely finished off the ranged minion.

He heard Peanut's footsteps coming through his earphones, but froze when he turned to look at the river.

The Lee Sin, who should have been in the top lane, was now moving along the bottom lane's tri-bush, with the green light of Smite flashing in the Gromp pit.

This unusual move made his back teeth ache, and he suddenly remembered the analyst's warning before the game: "Peanut's Lee Sin will choose the opposite route in 63% of his ganks. He is good at using psychological games to create blind spots in vision."

Zyra, playing on the red side's bottom lane, was bending over to plant seeds. As the vines stretched out at her feet, she caught a glimpse of a figure flashing through the river grass.

Her alertness prompted her to immediately take a half step back, only to see the enemy ADC suddenly become aggressive – the Explorer who was supposed to be farming minions cautiously was now crossing the minion wave to shoot at her shield.

Zyra's fingertip hovered over the Flash button, but her eyes were fixed on the minimap: Lee Sin's icon was still in the Gromp pit, showing "channeling Smite".

"He doesn't have his ultimate ability, and his Flash is on cooldown."

Pray's Ashe lowered his voice, the arrow drawing a graceful arc on the bowstring. He calculated Lee Sin's skill cooldown: since the last gank bot lane, Lee Sin's Dragon's Tail had been idle for 120 seconds, and Flash still had 97 seconds left on cooldown.

This realization emboldened him, and Ashe's kiting pace suddenly accelerated, with critical strike effects sending sparks flying onto the enemy ADC.

But what Pray didn't see was that Peanut's Lee Sin was hiding in the shadow of the Rift Scuttler.

The effect of Smite on jungle monsters was a deliberate opening he created. In reality, he had already used [Golden Bell] to pass through the wall 10 seconds earlier. The fake vision of him staying in the Gromp pit was just a psychological misdirection created by the delay of Smite.

As Zyra's seed exploded in the river bush, Lee Sin suddenly leaped out of the shadows, his [Sonic Wave] striking the enemy support with pinpoint accuracy. This seemingly impossible gank angle caused the red team's bot lane duo's pupils to shrink in shock. The cannon minion wave in the top lane pushed under the tower again, and Yuan Shen's Olaf spun his tomahawk, calculating his recall time. The stopwatch in the bottom right corner of the screen showed that Peanut's Lee Sin had been missing from the jungle for 17 seconds; this dangerous signal made his fingertips tremble slightly.

He knew that when Lee Sin abandoned the top lane, he must have set traps on other lanes—and Zyra in the bottom lane was arrogantly burying seeds in the river bushes with the economic advantage of 3 stacks of Cull.

"Mingkai, go to the bottom lane and set up vision." Yuan Shen typed on the keyboard, his tone unusually urgent.

But at that moment, Jayce's cannon-form sniper laser grazed past his scalp—Smeb's Jayce had actually launched an attack under the tower. This unusual move startled Olaf, who then saw Jayce use the aftercast animation of his basic attack to switch to hammer form, accelerating his passive to trigger as he charged towards Olaf.

"He's stalling for time!" Yuan Shen suddenly realized. Every time Jayce's hammer form basic attack hits, it reduces the cooldown of [Thunder Strike], and Smeb's aggressive positioning at this moment is clearly buying time for Peanut's gank.

The moment the battle axe shot through the air, Olaf's Sprint activated, but Jayce's [Electric Shock] had already exploded beneath his feet. The combined damage from the turret's projectiles and hammer blows caused Olaf's health bar to drop by a third.

This was Smeb's first proactive substitution in three minutes. He stared at Olaf's retreating steps, recalling Peanut's words before the game: "When you feel you should be under pressure, that's probably when your opponent is most relaxed."

Before the acceleration effect of the hammer form disappeared, he precisely switched back to the cannon form, finished off the low-health minion with a basic attack, and a bitter smile appeared on his lips—although this exchange of blows resulted in a loss of health, it successfully delayed Olaf's recall rhythm.

The battle for the river crab pits has reached a fever pitch.

Pray's Ashe fired her third Enchanted Crystal Arrow, but it was blocked by Lee Sin's Golden Shield.

The enemy support's Exhaust buff was applied to Ashe, and the Explorer's ultimate, Precision Barrage, grazed her hair and exploded into golden sparks on the turret.

Zyra's seeds burst open at her feet, and the vines wrapped around Lee Sin. Just as Lee Sin was about to unleash the second part of his [Sonic Wave], the dragon tail effect exploded at her waist, sending her flying towards the enemy ADC's gun.

"Flash! Flash now!" The red team support's shout pierced through the headphones, but Zyra's finger hesitated on the Flash button for 0.3 seconds—she saw that Lee Sin's ultimate effect had gone on cooldown and mistakenly thought that the kick was just a normal skill.

But it was in that crucial 0.3 seconds that the enemy ADC's critical basic attack landed precisely, instantly reducing his health bar to almost nothing.

At the critical moment, Zyra's Twisted Treant passive was triggered, and Daisy's vines rose from beneath her feet, blocking the fatal blow.

But Peanut's Lee Sin had already anticipated all of this. The moment the green light of Smite on the Rift Scuttler lit up, Lee Sin used the Ward Hoop technique to dash behind Zyra. The afterimage of Dragon's Tail and the turret's cannonball hit at the same time. This Lee Sin, who had no ultimate or Flash, actually completed a seemingly impossible kill through psychological warfare.

"Great! Peanut used the illusion of not having his ultimate to bait out all of Zyra's survival skills!"

Amidst the exclamations of the commentators, the director switched to the death replay. In slow motion, the Lee Sin deliberately revealed the Smite effect in the Gromp pit before the gank. This detail misled the red team into thinking he was still farming in the jungle, when in fact, he had already used the wall to flank from behind 15 seconds earlier.

Zyra's expression was clearly visible on the screen—a sudden shift from underestimating her opponent to being terrified, revealing the shock she felt at the psychological tactics of a professional player.

Olaf finally returned to the city after his journey, and Yuan Shen looked at Tiamat in his backpack, but a sense of unease rose in his heart.

On the minimap, as the kill icon for the bottom lane lit up, the notification sound for the Rift Herald's spawn also rang in my ears.

He suddenly realized that Peanut's entire strategy was for this moment—using the bot lane's apparent disadvantage to draw his team's attention, while his real intention was to secure the Rift Herald.

"Mingkai, head to the middle river!"

Yuan Shen's command was urgent, but it was too late. Peanut's Lee Sin had already arrived at the Rift Herald pit with Smite, and Smeb's Jayce actually teleported from the top lane to support despite the pressure. The blue team's vision instantly lit up at the Rift Herald pit.

Zhao Xin emerged from the jungle, only to be forced back by Jayce's cannon-form sniper laser. Lee Sin's Smite effect and the Herald's roar rang out simultaneously, and this crucial map resource fell into the hands of the blue team.

Smeb breathed a sigh of relief under the turret, and Jayce's cannon form finished off the last melee minion with a basic attack.

Looking at the newly purchased Burning Gem in his backpack, he felt a long-lost sense of security—control of the Rift Herald meant that the blue team could launch a tower-pushing campaign at any time in the next ten minutes, and Olaf's solo lane advantage would be infinitely diluted by this team-oriented resource.

"Well done, Peanut."

Smeb's Korean was tinged with laughter, but heavy breathing could be heard through the earpiece.

Peanut's Lee Sin was traveling through the jungle, his Smite still on cooldown, while the enemy jungler Xin Zhao was heading to the top lane with the red buff. The young jungler touched the wear marks on his keyboard and suddenly remembered what his coach had said before the match: "A true master of rhythm always knows when to gamble and when to play it safe."

Inside the red team's base, Yuan Shen stared at the blue team's movements on the minimap, his fingertips lightly tapping the table.

He had anticipated Peanut's contrarian thinking, but he hadn't expected the opponent to use "Lee Sin without his ultimate ability" as psychological bait—this illogical decision completely shattered his prediction of the situation.

What worried him even more was that Zyra kept repeating in the voice chat, "He clearly doesn't have his ultimate." This misjudgment of vision information could trigger a chain reaction in the upcoming team fight.

"Don't panic, once they get the vanguard, they'll force their way onto the lane."

Mingkai's Xin Zhao spoke calmly, but frowned the moment he saw Jayce's teleport disappear.

He knew that Peanut's next move would definitely be a split-push tactic centered around the vanguard, and what the red team needed most at this moment was to use Olaf's single-lane pressure to break through the opponent's defense and use his individual ability to break the stalemate of the team's rhythm.

The roar of the Rift Herald echoed throughout the jungle, signaling the official start of the blue team's push.

Peanut's Lee Sin stood at the edge of the Rift Herald pit, watching the plating of the red team's mid-lane turret, silently calculating the time: Olaf's recall time was 47 seconds, Xin Zhao's Smite was 32 seconds, and his Lee Sin had bought the team the most precious breathing space. (End of Chapter)