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

Chapter 251 It would be such a shame if I couldn't shake your hand as your coach!
In League of Legends, when it comes to the speed at which AD carries can kill tanks, many people's first impression is definitely Vayne or Kog'Maw. But the truth is, the former two are only good at killing tanks, but when it comes to speed, the champion has to be Varus.

The synergy between his W passive skill and his other three skills allows this Arrow of Retribution to deal high percentage-based damage.

While Vayne needs to auto-attack with each of her three-hit combos, Varus can simply use his R followed by a charged Q.

Coincidentally, the target was a Dragonblood Warrior who only had high HP but hadn't yet developed magic resistance.

puff!

A piercing arrow pierced through the hero's body, and the Dragon Girl, who originally had two-thirds of her health bar, instantly lost half of her health again.

"My sword is your sword!"

With Varus's ultimate providing crowd control, Jiang Ming opted not to initiate with his Q skill. Instead, he used the Lich Bane passive stack he gained from activating his ultimate to quickly land his first auto-attack after closing in.

"Blade and flesh."

Master Yi's E skill, Wuju Style, is actively triggered, granting him the Lich Bane passive again and doubling his attack damage. With the attack speed boost from Highlander, Master Yi, who specializes in both magic and physical damage, displays terrifying damage capabilities.

boom!
DaMu didn't want to be caught by Varus who was flanking him, so he used Flash.

However, Jiang Ming pressed his Q skill at the perfect moment, and the two heroes were inseparable.

"Wow!"

"Varus' ultimate hit precisely, dealing extremely high damage. Shyvana never expected that at this point in time, NXG's two carries would be primarily dealing magic damage."

"Jm's mechanics were incredibly precise. He used Ra to trigger the Lich Bane effect, followed by Ea to trigger it again, and then finished the kill with a QA combo."

"Wow, the Sword Saint hasn't even finished crafting his second item yet, and his damage is already this high?"

"There's nothing we can do, JM's Juggernaut is just too high-level, a full two levels higher than the tanky Shyvana, and if I'm not mistaken, JM even managed to land a WAF (Warrior's Wrath) at the very end..."

Miller and Bella both shut up.

harm?

Okay, no more doubts. In one clash, you made the Sword Saint trigger the Lich Bane passive four times. Even the assassins who dominate the mid lane would shake their heads in disbelief.

Despite the death of Shyvana, SKT, missing one player, did not want to give up the dragon easily. While sending Twisted Fate to clear the minion wave in the mid lane, the other three players stood in the upper half of the dragon pit to interfere.

But SKT soon paid a heavy price for this decision.

"Go! Go! Go!"

"Ignore everything, just charge straight at them."

The Sword Saint, covered in red and blue buffs, was crossing SKT's jungle when Jiang Ming simultaneously gave his teammates the order to attack.

Xin Zhao, Sona, and Miss Fortune are harassing us. SKT, did you buy them?
The initiation range of Aatrox and Zac is terrifying, not to mention that NXG also has Leona as a supplement.

"Drink!"

"Let's get started."

"SKT's harassment of NXG is like a naughty child angering the king of beasts. Sun's ultimate was cast behind Miss Fortune, but it didn't stun anyone, although the slow effect was applied."

"Zac's rubber slingshot, Aatrox's dark leap, the top and jungle duo charged straight into the crowd, SKT is in trouble, Twisted Fate just finished clearing the minion wave, turn around and support his teammates."

Jiang Ming didn't rush into the fray. Even though he had quickly arrived at the front lines using his second refreshed ultimate, he just silently watched his teammates fight against SKT.

The Sword Saint's ultimate passive ability refreshes all his skills upon participating in a kill, so he needs to wait for a low-health enemy to appear.

With four players on one side and one side missing their top laner and mid laner respectively, and the blue side's Twisted Fate in the mid lane not being known for burst damage, the scales of victory were already tipping in NXG's favor.

Soon, unsurprisingly, the most vulnerable Sona became the target.

Fumando and the pig reduce health bars by almost the same amount, but Sona's maximum health is far less than her AD carry's.

"Though the enemy outnumbers us, we will slay them all with a single blow!"

Swish!
On the river battlefield, a green figure flashed through the SKT crowd.

Alpha Raid!
There was no requirement to wait until the moment of instant kill with Q. Seizing the opportunity, Jiang Ming decisively Q'd into the crowd through the gap in the crowd.

After Sona was ambushed and closed in by Alpha, her already low health bar suddenly dropped to a mere sliver.

A followed by W resets the basic attack, quickly triggering the Lich Bane effect.

The Sona was killed with a single blow.

Just then, a golden card flew out from the shadows, its target the Sword Saint who was about to unleash his killing spree.

"Controllable!"

"Controllable!"

"If we can control him, we can kill him."

Faker threw out his yellow card, trying to take advantage of the moment when Master Yi attacked Sona to gain control, but the yellow card's trajectory was still two points slower.

Sona is dead, and Master Yi's skills are refreshed. He turns around and uses Q on Miss Fortune, which, combined with the Lich Bane effect, severely damages the AD carry.

Wow!
The audience gasped in surprise, but not because they were surprised that the Sword Saint was about to reap the rewards.

Compared to the thrill of finishing off the enemy at the end, the AOE damage that the Sword Saint deals to the team by entering the fray early with two Q skills is more exciting at this time.

It seems that there aren't many champions who, if a regular mid-laner lands all four of their QWER skills, could deal damage in a team fight comparable to a Master Yi who can unleash two full Qs.

What? You say two aren't enough? There are quite a few heroes who can be compared to them.

What about the other three?

Xu Jing silently dealt damage, meticulously auto-attacking each person to activate their passive ability. Finally, a barrage of Evil Arrows exploded in the crowd, maximizing the reduction of the mid-laner's opponent's health.

NXG sorry, they killed SKT piglet!

Unfortunately, because the heroine needed to move forward to unleash her ultimate, she took a lot of damage from the initial AOE, which meant she couldn't withstand Varus's final AOE damage.

"Another one died, and the Sword Saint's skills are ready again!"

"Zhao Xin's positioning is good enough... Holy crap, Bengi turned around and E'd right into Master Yi's face, preventing Alpha Strike from affecting Twisted Fate."

"This is love!"

"Putting love aside for now, once Zhao Xin gets another kill, JM's four-point-zero Master Yi will take off."

"No problem, I have the Hellfire when I get home."

"The other brothers are also developing well. Now they have both control and damage. In team fights, it seems that as long as JM doesn't get instantly killed, SKT will have a hard time dealing with this Master Yi."

……

As the game progressed, the economic and kill ratio gap between the two sides continued to widen.

Team fights ended one after another, with other heroes on both sides dying. But what chilled Korean fans was that the Sword Saint was almost unstoppable. He always entered the fray in the second or third time, but the SKT players from their region just couldn't do anything about this devil.

Keeping or not keeping key skills is problematic, as both Twisted Fate and Sona's control skills have projectile trajectories, which means they are always dodged by Alpha Strike.

Xiaoxiao laughed loudly, "Let me tell you a scary story. It's been twenty minutes, and Jm's Master Yi hasn't used his W skill even once in these team fights."

Is it strange that I've never used W?

The viewers in the live stream were a little confused, but they quickly realized what was going on.

An AP Master Yi who relies on W to heal and increase his survivability doesn't need to use W in team fights, which shows how significant his advantage is.

[I was typing when it suddenly dawned on me: everyone in the Master Yi team fight was using W as the Lich Bane trigger button.]

[If you can't even beat them with a single skill, how are you supposed to play?] [There's nothing we can do. Jm's entry timing was just too perfect, and the other four players on NXG are all incredibly strong, always managing to create opportunities for the Sword Saint to clean up.]

[The key is that Miss Fortune and Sona have no room to perform. Not to mention the interference from Aatrox and Zac, once Master Yi enters the fray and throws a Deathfire Grasp, a Q-A combo is enough to kill someone.]

At 21 minutes, Fumando, who had placed a ward in the jungle, ran into the Sword Saint. Without saying a word, Jiang Ming first applied Deathfire Grasp, then used Alpha Strike to glide past, and landed a basic attack with Lich Bane to kill Sona.

Godlike!

"call!"

As Lee Sang-hyeok heard the notification in his earpiece that his opponent, the Sword Saint, was approaching godhood, he took a deep breath.

Twenty minutes have passed, and he hasn't even managed to take down a single second tower!

The card selection was ineffective, extremely ineffective, to the point that it made him feel like he was showing off his limited skills before an expert.

Despite being outmatched in game understanding, they abandoned their only advantage in the second game, attempting to avoid mid-jungle confrontations by relying on a mid-jungle duo roaming strategy.

Unexpectedly, this turned out to be the opponent's preferred fighting style, resulting in an even worse beating.

At this point in the second game, facing a 7-0 AP Master Yi, their only chance to turn the tide was to eliminate the opponent first; otherwise, with their lineup, they would only be picked off one by one by NXG.

However, having something in one's mind is one thing, but being able to do it is another.

Knowing that his own father needed protection, Pang Ran immediately pulled out Michael's cauldron!
Yes, you read that right. The first item Leona builds is an item that supports like Janna, Nami, and Lulu would typically build, in order to increase her survivability.

"They're not giving us a way out!"

"NXG's playstyle is despair-inducing. The two teams are clearly at a significant disadvantage in terms of raw skill, yet they still chose the safest approach."

"I think this is also putting their team's philosophy into practice—a true master always has the heart of an apprentice."

"Haha, speaking of this classic line, JM probably chose the Sword Saint because of the same idea, right?"

At 25 minutes, as SKT's last remaining piece of vision near Baron disappeared, NXG initiated a Baron attack.

In this game, although Jiang Ming's Master Yi was an AP build, with Varus and Aatrox on the team, the speed at which he took down the dragon was not slow. In fact, due to Zac and Aatrox's self-healing abilities, NXG's team suffered very little damage to the dragon.

SKT knew very well what was happening in the shadows.

Unfortunately, they had no choice but to muster their courage once again and regroup at the Dragon Pit. Given their current disadvantage, they would die whether they defended or fought.

Since the outcome won't make much difference, I might as well give it my all before I die.

"Ouch..."

However, before the SKT team could arrive, they heard Baron Nashor's mournful howls echoing through the air of the Rift.

The dragon, that's it?

"Retreat!" Faker shouted in the voice chat.

Unfortunately, it was too late. Song Yuan had already prepared for the standing long jump when the dragon still had more than a thousand health points.

As soon as the SKT heroes entered the skill range, they were launched into the air and rushed towards the crowd.

"Crush them!"

"This war will be my masterpiece."

"Enjoy the glory of the sun."

"My arrows will always find their own target."

Following closely behind Zac was Shi Zhenyu's Aatrox, followed by Pang Ran's crowd control, and Xu Jing's Varus flashed and used his ultimate.

Jiang Ming, who was left at the back, was the first person in the game to be the last to enter the field. He didn't need to do anything else; he just needed to finish the job.

In the video, the young man's smile became even more radiant.

At that very moment, he had to admit once again that he had made a mistake in his judgment:

Judging from today's performance alone, the five team members beside me and in the dressing room, whom I have carefully guided all the way, are fully capable of winning this championship on their own.

Even if I weren't sitting in the mid lane right now, this best-of-five series in the S3 World Championship wouldn't cause any ripples, and there would be absolutely no surprises.

Thoughts drifted away, eventually returning to the body.

The Sword Saint activated his Highland Bloodline, pointing his sword at the blue team's remaining low-health members.

"One strike cuts through a thousand machines!"

……

"The third game of the finals begins!"

"NXG leads 2-0 and holds three match points. They only need to win one more game for the LPL region to win its first S-series championship."

"The director has announced that JM, who just got a pentakill with AP Master Yi in the second game, has opted to make a substitution, bringing in player yihan for the mid lane."

"JM took off his player uniform and once again stood behind the players as a coach."

"Wow, it's a wonderful message that the contestants have no regrets even if they are unsuccessful."

"Of course, if SKT can seize this opportunity, it is not impossible for them to turn the tide."

On the players' bench, the two mid-laners looked at each other across the distance.

If Yihan was excited and incredulous at this moment, then the emotions in Faker's eyes were deep resentment and disappointment.

He doesn't understand, and he can't accept it:
JM surprisingly left the game in the last round, choosing to bring in a substitute to play against him.

"Do you feel that your strength is not enough?"

"Or is it that Lee Sang-hyeok, who can only compete in lane, is not even qualified to challenge you..."

Frustrated, Faker couldn't find any words to refute the statement.

In the laning phase... I tried my best in the first game, but I still couldn't lead the team to break through NXG's defenses and roam to support.

Needless to say, the carefully selected Twisted Fate was solo killed in lane, his split-pushing was ineffective, and in team fights he turned into a triple-master, wasting countless yellow cards!
Substitute?

Xu Jing nudged Wu Zhiqiang, who had just come on stage, with his left hand, half comforting and half teasing, "Those commentators outside definitely haven't done their homework."

"I'm so sorry, Shen is not a substitute at all, he is clearly NXG's starting mid laner."

"Exactly, exactly. The first two matches were just some privileged player insisting on 'revisiting the players' glory days,'" the ADC player winked. "If we're really talking about skill—"

"Stop!" Wu Zhiqiang raised his hands in surrender. "No matter how much you guys brag, I can't say I can dominate the opponent online!"

"Don't worry, I'll help you, bro."

"NXG, charge! Three to zero, we're done! The championship is ours!"

Jiang Ming did not participate in the five people's conversation. After completing the final draft and ban phase, he walked off the stage and went to the center of the stage.

He clasped his right hand with Koma's, whose expression was heavy and whose eyes were filled with deep confusion.

"Why are you?"

"uh-huh!"

"If I, as a coach, cannot shake hands with you as an opponent during the finals, wouldn't that be a great pity?"

(End of this chapter)