League of Legends: Reborn in Season 3, Tuning the Entire League

Chapter 249 The Lucky Sword Saint, Level Two Solo Kill!

Back online, Jiang Ming and Faker's Twisted Fate once again engaged in a back-and-forth ghost step tug-of-war.

In the last game, I was playing Orianna against the enemy Gragas, so this game has a bit of a role reversal.

However, compared to Gragas who learns E at level 1 and has virtually no ranged countermeasures, Master Yi, who can use Q to dodge Twisted Fate's yellow card, is significantly more threatening.

The old and new versions of Master Yi don't differ much in their skill sets. His Q skill, Alpha Strike, deals area damage and makes him untargetable. His W skill heals him. His E skill increases damage, and his ultimate skill, Highlander, increases attack speed and movement speed and refreshes skill cooldowns.

The only difference lies in the spell power scaling of the Q and W skills. The current Alpha Strike can deal 300 magic damage to four enemies, and with full cooldown reduction in the late game, the cooldown is only six seconds. It also has a high AP scaling of 1.0, plus the refresh effect of the ultimate, which is a major reason why AP Master Yi can be played.

Meanwhile, the max-level W skill Meditation can restore 700 health plus 1.65 ability power over five seconds. Well, this is the result of the third nerf. The initial version was 4.0, and the subsequent versions from Season 2 to Season 3 were 2.0.

The butterfly effect-like changes were caused by the immense influence of Jiang Ming's own video dissemination.

However, the impact is not significant. During the meditation period, the Blademaster's dual resistances will increase by 300, which means that as long as the opponent is not seriously injured or controlled, you can be instantly restored to full health even if you are low on health.

The E skill does not have true damage, but its passive increases attack power and its active skill doubles attack power for a longer duration.

The ultimate skill, Highland Bloodline, needs no further explanation; it's completely incomparable to the comical parkour performance of the later AD carry who couldn't even outrun a Ghost.

"Watch my Alpha... sneak attack!"

With little pressure against the card, Jiang Ming, in a relaxed mood, even started making funny jokes about Demacia.

A level 1 Q deals a high amount of magic damage of 100, making its early-game poke ability quite strong.

In the game, the Sword Saint transforms into a phantom, timing his attack with Alpha Strike as Faker's red card is activated amidst the minions.

Red card splash effect miss!

At the same time, by controlling the target of ranged minions, the Q skill also includes the card behind him.

The current Master Yi's Q skill has a very special mechanism: when the landing point of the Q skill cannot be freely selected, it depends on the survival status of the target.

If the target survives, the Blademaster lands in front of the target; if the primary target dies, the Blademaster returns to the starting point.

Mastering this detail in the mid-lane laning phase makes facing Twisted Fate practically unsolvable.

Of course, there is another reason why this can be played, which is that Master Yi's Q, like his passive, has a chance to deal additional damage.

Level 2!
Yes, for Blademaster, level 2 is the kill threshold.

You don't need any advanced skills. All you need to do is learn to use Q to chip away at the opponent's health at level 1, and then find an opportunity to get close to them.

Jiang Ming wasn't too worried about the harassment from SKT's Airplane duo. In this game, after SKT picked Twisted Fate, they took the initiative to switch lanes, with the duo on the top lane and the Shyvana on the bottom lane to withstand the pressure.

With Miss Fortune and Sona, two champions with superior poke damage in the early game, the minion wave can definitely be pushed in front of Zac's tower. Bengi's primary task is to go to the top lane to protect Piglet and Fumando. He doesn't need to tower dive, but he must do a counter-gank.

Otherwise, if Aatrox finds an opportunity, with NXG's top and jungle players having resurrection abilities and extremely long displacement distances, killing SKT's two players who lack mobility would not be difficult at all.

"The two mid laners here are in pretty bad shape. JM's playstyle has changed from his usual style and is very aggressive."

"Benji and Aatrox swapped blue buff areas at level one, with their jungle routes shifting slightly higher and lower respectively. However, given Benji's style... I really can't say whether he'll gank mid directly. Otherwise, Faker wouldn't have traded kills with JM like that!"

Neither the commentators nor the players realized that the Sword Saint might launch an attack at level two.

It's no wonder that League of Legends is still relatively new, and players' understanding of heroes is still at a basic level, without delving into the skill mechanics and combinations.

This also applies to pure professional players like Faker.

Considering his short streaming career and the fact that most of his professional matches this year involved high-level games, his understanding of some uncommon heroes or those rarely picked in high-level games is completely insufficient.

Jiang Ming was different. From Bronze to King, from the simple-to-operate Demacia to the Riven who could press six keys in one second, he studied everything from top to bottom countless times in order to record the video.

With the exaggerated speed of video dissemination in the information explosion era of later generations, any special skill of a hero can be popularized in the League of Legends in just a few days.

While waiting for the experience to level up, Jiang Ming controlled the Sword Saint to keep auto-attacking the minions.

The current passive ability is no longer the version where attacking seven times will trigger dual blades; instead, there is a certain probability that Master Yi has the opportunity to directly trigger double attack.

Yes, you understood correctly, it means double the attack in the literal sense.

Theoretically speaking, with enough good luck, a lucky Master Yi can deal double damage with every hit, just like a critical-hit Barbarian King.

However, this is a professional match, and Jiang Ming doesn't like to rely on luck for the outcome of the game. Especially when the source of that luck is Tencent!
Fortunately, as is widely known, the League's probability skills use a pseudo-random mechanism.

This means that the probability of each attack is not fixed. If your previous attacks did not trigger the probability skill, the probability of subsequent attacks triggering the skill will be greatly increased.

This is why many Barbarian King players won't immediately attack you after accumulating full rage. Instead, they'll stand still and land two basic attacks. If you realize that neither of your first two attacks will be critical hits, trust me, run away immediately, because what follows will be incredibly heartbreaking.

puff!puff!puff!
Both waves of minions had reached the mid lane. After attacking four or five times without triggering the double-sword effect, Jiang Ming smiled with satisfaction.

Hmm, I've accumulated enough good karma.

……

On stage, the three LPL commentators never took their eyes off the mid lane.

Seeing the animation of the Sword Saint's basic attack on a minion, Miller felt a little disappointed. "Dual blades... dual blades... sigh, why haven't I seen dual blades yet? Looks like JM's luck is a bit bad today."

Bella and Xiaoxiao exchanged a glance, covered their mouths and chuckled, and immediately gave the audience in front of the screen a lesson on the League's pseudo-random mechanism.

Before he could finish speaking, the Sword Saint in the middle lane had already stepped forward with his sword drawn.

"Wow, Level 2! JM went straight for it!"

"Alpha's surprise attack, Faker is a red card. He never expected that Master Yi would not choose to use Q to poke minions this time."

"They've ignited the fire first; they're going all in."

What are some of the skills that Juggernaut has?

At that moment, many people asked themselves this question.

It seems like there isn't, but it also seems like there isn't!

Yes, this is the answer they read from JM's hands.

Alpha Raid!
Ignite is applied, triggering the talent effect gained from attacks, then E skill is activated...

A! A! A! A! A!

What a great 5A-level combo! The moves are exactly the same, but when Jm performs them, they feel different from those performed by ordinary players.

But where does the difference lie?

Miller's shout the next second provided the explanation: "Double strike!"

"First strike, second strike, wow, two consecutive double strikes, this is the European Sword Saint."

"Faker was completely stunned. How could a level 2 Master Yi deal such ridiculously high damage!"

"Flash, JM flashes again, he's about to kill you..."

Before heroes' attack speed increases, even the most skilled player cannot execute perfectly executed kiting maneuvers, let alone against a living, breathing human who knows how to fight back and escape.

However, Jiang Ming consciously added three small attack speed runes to his talent runes so that when he needed to chase basic attacks in the early levels, he wouldn't get stuck because of the animation of finishing his attack.

At level two, Master Yi already showed signs of being a mad dog, and with his final basic attack, Twisted Fate's health bar was reduced to zero.

A blood!

"Single kill!"

"Level 2 solo kill!"

Miller smiled, marking the moment he transformed from a WE fan to a die-hard NXG supporter.

"SKT wanted to use roaming to open up the situation, but they forgot one thing."

"When facing JM, you have to hold your own in lane before you can have any future."

As a hero who relies heavily on gold, whether Juggernaut has enough damage has never been a topic of discussion among players. The only reason he can't be seen in professional matches is that he is extremely difficult to farm.

But right now, for Master Yi who secured first blood at the start of the game, all of that has become meaningless.

(End of this chapter)