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"That's terrifying, SSG's vision control is incredible." Wawa looked at the SKT half of the map gradually turning black on the big screen. "They don't fight you at all, they just keep clearing your wards and then building their own. They're squeezing your space to the extreme."

The atmosphere in SKT's team voice chat became tense again.

"I can't place any vision." Wolf's voice was tinged with anxiety and helplessness. "I just placed a control ward in the F6 bush, and Ambition immediately came over and destroyed it. It's like they know where I'm going to place wards."

"My red buff area is completely dark, I'm too scared to go in." Peanut also felt a deep sense of helplessness. As a Lee Sin, walking in the jungle without vision is like walking a tightrope blindfolded, and you could be hit by Malzahar's ultimate or Camille's kick from the bushes at any time and melt instantly.

Faker's Orianna could only cower near the mid-lane second turret, struggling to clear the minion wave with her Q and W skills. Huni's Gnar didn't even dare to leave the second turret, and could only watch helplessly as CuVee's Camille pushed the minion wave into the bottom lane once again.

"That's what makes SSG so terrifying," Guan Zeyuan pointed out incisively. "They know SKT too well. Or rather, SSG's coaching staff, Edgar, has studied SKT too thoroughly. Look, Wolf's habit of placing wards in the center of the river bush, and Peanut's habit of placing defensive wards in the bush behind the red buff—these long-established vision habits of SKT were thoroughly analyzed by SSG through countless video replays before the match!"

As Guan Zeyuan said, SSG's ward placement was extremely precise and swift. They didn't even need to use scanning to search a large area; they would simply walk to a specific location, place a real ward, and it would always reveal SKT's fake ward.

In just three minutes, SSG wiped out more than a dozen vision points that SKT had set up in the jungle and river as easily as autumn leaves falling.

Looking at the minimap, SKT's vision range was completely suppressed within the high ground walls. Except for the area where the three lanes of minions intersected, the entire Summoner's Rift was a suffocating darkness for SKT.

"A slow death." Miller sighed. "SKT is completely caught in SSG's rhythm now. No vision means no information; no information means no courage to leave the jungle; no courage to leave the jungle means surrendering all the jungle resources. SSG just needs to comfortably fill the Baron and Elder Dragon areas with vision, and then use Camille to split push. SKT will be worn down sooner or later."

"Someone has to step up and break the deadlock, otherwise if this drags on any longer, and Ruler's Varus gets a full build, SKT will really have no chance."

On the SKT players' bench.

Faker pushed up his glasses, his brows furrowed tightly. He kept switching screens, trying to find a clue in the pitch-black fog of war, but he couldn't see anything.

"Get ready to engage at the Baron pit. We can't let Baron go," Faker said in a deep voice. Although he knew that blindly exploring the Baron pit without vision was no different from suicide, it was their only option.

"etc."

Just then, a calm yet somewhat abrupt voice came through the headphones.

It's Xiao Yan.

Faker turned his head and looked at Xiao Yan, who was sitting at the very edge.

The camera on the big screen switched to Xiao Yan's face at that very moment.

To the astonishment of all the viewers and commentators, at this moment when SKT was almost driven to the brink of defeat and the entire map was pitch black, Xiao Yan's face showed no panic or despair. Instead, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, forming an extremely playful arc.

He is laughing.

"Xiao Yan... he's laughing?" The doll rubbed her eyes, thinking she was seeing things. "How can he still laugh at a time like this?"

On the competition stage, Xiao Yan looked at the small, dark map in front of him, his fingers lightly tapping on the mouse.

"SSG's vision control is indeed very strong," Xiao Yan said calmly in the voice chat. "They've watched all our previous game replays thoroughly and know exactly how we place our wards. They know that Wolf likes to place wards right in the middle of the bushes, and they know that Peanut likes to place wards at intersections."

"So what should we do?" Wolf asked, somewhat frustrated.

"It's simple." Xiao Yan's smile deepened. "Since they're targeting the 'past' SKT, let's show them something 'new'."

"From now on, the arrangement of the field of view will be under my command."

After these words were spoken, there was a brief silence in SKT's voice chat.

In SKT, vision control is typically led by support Wolf and jungler Peanut, with Faker providing support. It's extremely rare for an ADC to demand control of vision control during the crucial 30-minute mark of a game – a truly exceptional situation in any professional team.

But after only a second of silence, Faker's voice rang out: "Okay, whatever you say."

After that incredible comeback, Xiao Yan's prestige within the SKT team has reached its peak. Faker is willing to place his bets on this young man at this crucial moment.

"Wolf, you have three fake eyes and two real eyes right now, right?" Xiao Yan quickly began to issue commands.

"right."

"Okay, go to the red buff jungle now. Don't take the main road, stick to the high ground wall." Xiao Yan spoke quickly but very clearly. "The first ward, don't put it in the usual defensive bush next to the F6 camp."

"Where should I insert it?"

"Place it at the deepest part of the F6 pit, right against the edge of that thick wall," Xiao Yan instructed. "The SSG prince just cleared the area here, so subconsciously he thinks this area is safe. Besides, the scanning range is limited. If he just passes by the bushes and activates the scan, he won't be able to see this blind spot at the deepest part of the F6 pit."

Following Xiao Yan's instructions, Wolf carefully made his way to the F6 pit and placed a fake eye in that extremely tricky corner.

"Peanut, go to the upper part of the river," Xiao Yan continued to command. "See that small, lonely clump of grass in the middle of the river?"

"I see it, their true eyes must be there," Peanut said.

"Don't go and destroy their true eyes." Xiao Yan's eyes gleamed with wisdom. "Put your fake eye on the outer edge of that bush, about two body lengths away from the bush, near the wall of the Dragon Pit."

"Stick it outside the grass? Wouldn't that make it immediately visible?" Little Peanut was stunned.

"Trust me, insert it there." Xiao Yan didn't explain further.

In the next minute, Xiao Yan acted like a master strategist, personally guiding each member of SKT as they placed visions in extremely strange, even seemingly foolish, positions across the entire map.

Some wards were placed on empty minion waves, some were placed next to the spawn points of Blast Cones in their own jungle, and some were even placed directly in the emptied Gromp pit in SSG's jungle.

In the commentary booth, the three commentators were completely baffled by SKT's inexplicable vision setup.

"What is SKT doing? Have they given up?" Wawa asked, completely bewildered. "What's the point of Wolf putting a ward in the F6 pit? You can't even see a passageway from there. And Peanut, putting a ward outside the bushes, isn't that just giving SSG free money?"