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Chapter 499 concludes, first victory secured.

Score, who was surprised by Varus's appearance, did not dare to be careless. He first laid down a large area of ​​scattered stones to restrict the opponent's movement, and then threw out rows of stones to wear down the landed Varus.

Taliyah's early game damage is very high; without using Flash, there's virtually no chance of surviving.

In addition, the enemy jungler flashed out and seemed to be trying to charge at him, so UZI decisively used Flash to move away to the bushes after losing almost half of his health.

This both deflected the damage from Taliyah and avoided the impact of the meatballs from the barrel.

A win-win situation.

At this moment, Aiming's Ezreal had also closed in, but with Alistar snapping back to reality by switching skills and ringing bells, his positioning and output were somewhat restricted.

Therefore, the only champion capable of dealing a significant portion of the damage to Varus is Score's Taliyah.

UZI's Flash position was too good. Unless Aiming's EZ uses Flash immediately after Arcane Shift to close the distance with Varus.

This allows for faster damage output while also preventing the Minotaur from controlling him, resulting in a win-win situation.

However, Aiming only thought about it for a moment before rejecting the possibility of flashing.

The reason is simple.

Varus has no skills left, and Alistar can't protect him. As long as Taliyah's damage doesn't miss, securing a kill shouldn't be a problem.

Therefore, Aiming felt that there was no need to waste any more extra Flashes, as it would consume too much manpower and resources.

Aiming wanted to keep the Flash, but he also had a longer-term plan, because the next dragon was the Fire Dragon, and they had to try to contest it.

Having a teleportation ability allows for better maneuverability.

Of course, the premise that this Flash is useful is that nothing unexpected happens when killing Varus; if something unexpected does happen, it will be very troublesome.

The only thing Aiming could think of was that Sejuani appeared in time to change the situation. As for the other positions, neither side of the top lane had a teleport.

Both sides on the central route were thinking of providing support, but unfortunately, they were already engaged in fierce fighting while still on the road.

After both of Aiming's Q skill, Arcane Shot, missed, he inevitably got knocked down and immobilized by the approaching Minotaur.

All that's left is to observe Taliyah's actions. The most crucial Rock Slash was used precisely by Score, who had clear vision, the moment Varus flashed into the bush.

When there is eyeliner inside.

Therefore, Score's skills were placed quickly and precisely, leaving UZI with no room to maneuver and making it impossible for him to escape the rock slam's knockback.

The next moment, Varus was carried out of the grass.

Score's tense mindset immediately relaxed. If they could kill Varus and take down the next tower, then they wouldn't have lost out.

Once the rock spike is raised, Varus's death is sealed, and all Score needs to do next is unleash all his damage.

Take down Varus, who's down to less than half health.

Even if someone came, they couldn't save him now, unless someone could prevent him from getting hurt in the slightest? You're kidding.

Score didn't believe it at all; if Varus had another ultimate ability, then he really had to be wary.

Unfortunately, Score dared to dive the bottom tower not only because of the significant losses in the top lane, but also because Varus had already used his ultimate when he proactively attacked in lane in an attempt to get a solo kill.

Otherwise, Score really wouldn't dare to tower dive in front of Alistar and Varus.

However, now that Varus is not at his peak, this issue can be completely disregarded.

Score only wanted to throw all the stones off his body; he could finish off Varus, who was trapped and unable to escape, in just a few moves.

In his eyes, Varus was already a dead man at this moment.

However, what Score didn't know was that in someone else's eyes, he, Taliyah, was actually a dead man.

It was precisely because he was certain that Varus was going to die that he was too relaxed. So when Lin Ruo's Sejuani appeared in his field of vision and used a drift and a super move to throw out the Frostbite Locket, he was caught off guard.

Still caught up in the excitement of about killing Varus, Score was completely oblivious and was immediately and firmly controlled by the hit.

The surrounding icy field continued to spread, and Score, who had stopped releasing skills, felt a chill running through him.

Piggy Girl arrived too quickly, clearly exceeding his expectations.

Actually, after the Rift Herald was released in the top lane and no Sejuani was there to push the tower at the same time, Score had already guessed that Sejuani should quickly recall and head towards the bottom lane.

However, Score was already on his way, so he couldn't just give up because of this speculation and let the top tower and Ryze's development go to waste.

And as expected, he was frozen in place at that moment.

Having already entered old age, there was no way to avoid this sudden and severe blow.

The moment of counterattack is about to begin.

The barrel was no longer able to fight, and all Corejj could do at this moment was to take a sip of wine with his big belly, then activate his W skill and smash Varus, who was the target, with the barrel.

But that's nowhere near as fast as killing Taliyah.

In Lin Ruo's eyes, Taliyah is still the same Taliyah. As long as he doesn't miss with his skills, he can take down half of the squishy Taliyah's health. What's more, he can now unleash his ultimate skill first.

With the passive two-stage control effect, Lin Ruo believed that a single combo would take away more than just half a health bar.

Varus, who used his W skill to swing his chains and combined it with basic attacks to fully stack his passive, was almost immobilized in place the moment his ultimate effect ended, before Taliyah could even use Flash.

Lin Ruo has used up all his damage, so he definitely can't kill Taliyah, but what about Varus?

If Sejuani, as a jungler focused on farming, already deals high damage in the early game, then Varus, an ADC who is already an overpowered early-game champion, deals considerable damage in the bot lane.

With half a Blade of the Ruined King, UZI's Varus dealt astonishing damage once his attack speed increased. After a few basic attacks to create a chain, a full-damage Q easily brought Taliyah to low health.

Finally, Lin Ruo dealt the final blow, followed by a basic attack to finish off Taliyah.

At the same time that Taliyah died, Varus, who already had very little health, also died as if he had exhausted himself after completing his mission.

Of course, the real reason is definitely not exhaustion.

It wasn't killed by the barrel.

Instead, Aiming, who had broken free from Alistar's control, couldn't sit still and chose to Flash in to auto-attack and then Q to finish off UZI.

Clearly, Aiming was quite decisive, but in Lin Ruo's view, this decisiveness came very late; in other words, it was used in the wrong place.

Why didn't you use Flash earlier to help Taliyah kill Varus? Why are you only using it now...?

While using Flash to kill Varus did kill him, was it even useful?
Aside from the fact that the kill was definitely given to EZ, Lin Ruo's other actions can be considered completely useless. Because at this point, even without Aiming's decisive Flash, the nearby Gragas would most likely have been able to secure the kill on UZI anyway.

Corejj's Q skill is about to refresh, killing Varus is just a matter of throwing out a barrel to slow him down and then doing a basic attack.

Aiming's entry into the fray is more focused on securing kills.

However, it's normal for ADCs to get kills, and it's even more reasonable for them to steal kills from the support in order to farm. Sometimes, using Flash to get kills is not unacceptable.

But the most serious thing about this flash-givel is that the tower dive battle is far from over. Using flash so quickly to steal a kill makes Aiming's survival situation much more worrying.

Lin Ruo's next target was naturally not EZ, who still had more than half his health left, but another Gragas whose health wasn't much more than Varus's.

After Varus died, Corejj knew he would be the next target, so he immediately retreated, intending to use his refreshed E skill to create distance.

Ideally, one should be able to get over the wall and quickly retreat through the triangular grassy area to preserve their life.

Lin Ruo was not going to give him that chance, so he decisively flashed up to close the distance. This forced Corejj to use his E skill to create distance before he even got close to the wall.

However, the next moment, Lin Ruo used Sejuani's refreshed Q skill, and the reaction time of that Savage Charge was no slower than that of the dummy's forward charge.

Gragas was hit by Sejuani almost halfway through his E skill's leap, his health barely recovered, and the distance between them was completely lost.

With EZ offering no way to heal or draw attention, Corejj's death was practically a foregone conclusion.

However, at the last moment, Corejj still forcefully used his stopwatch to activate his invincibility and buy time, not to give himself a chance to escape.

It's impossible for EZ to die instantly with just one auto-attack. On the contrary, Corejj is giving EZ a chance to escape and get to the river.

Otherwise, if he dies, and Sejuani turns around, where will Ezreal, who is still behind him, run to? Run to the enemy jungle?

Corejj, who was about to die, had clearly done everything he could.

Two seconds later...

Lin Ruo naturally accepted the second kill.

The long-awaited double kill notification sound echoed outside Summoner's Rift, inevitably plunging the small venue into a frenzy.

Chinese fans have stood up.

At this moment, Wang Duoduo in the commentary booth was extremely excited: "A very decisive flash, directly pinning down Corejj who was still trying to escape and taking down the kill."

"Faced with the Korean team's bot lane tower dive, Lin Ruo, who rushed back to support at the fastest speed, successfully turned the tide and helped China turn the tide by scoring a 1-for-2 trade. Now, only one EZ is still alive."

Aiming still has a lot of health left, but that doesn't mean he can kill either Alistar or Sejuani.

Don't forget, neither Lin Ruo's Sejuani nor Tian Ye's Alistar have significantly different health levels.

EZ alone cannot possibly outplay two people with one move. On the contrary, if the Sejuani-Ox combo unleashes a full control chain, EZ will be the one to die without a trace.

So Aiming, who was playing Ezreal, didn't look back. The first thing he thought of was to run away as fast as he could. He had to run without looking back.

If he lingered any longer, he would surely be the one to die.

You expect me, a fragile little blond guy, to take on two burly men one-on-one? Did you think they were women?

Unless the opponent is from Chengdu, there is absolutely no chance of winning.

Of course, the other side wasn't.

Fortunately, although he had to use Flash, Aiming still had his refreshed E skill available. So he accomplished what Corejj couldn't: he fought and retreated with Sejuani, successfully using his E skill to cross the wall and enter the triangular grass area before Alistar could even knock him up with his double knock-up.

Although this tower dive resulted in a huge loss, Aiming felt that as long as he was still alive, he would have to keep fighting.

If you also die, and the captain is also underdeveloped, it's hard to say who will step up in the mid-game.

Should we rely on Fiora to split push?
It's hard.

Their lineup doesn't focus on split pushing; Fiora was picked only to create an advantage in lane and counter the Chinese team's Gnar and Irelia split pushing duo.

Aiming had a clear plan, but all of this was based on the premise that he got the kill and didn't die.

If EZ is also gone, the Korean team will have no advantage in any area.

As it turns out, the South Korean team really is like that; they don't have any particular advantage.

Although Aiming successfully escaped to the triangular grassland, unfortunately, the Minotaur caught up with him.

Tianye's Alistar managed to land a Flash and a double-hit combo on Ezreal, who was almost escaping, causing AIM's brain to go into a prolonged shutdown.

At this point, he shouldn't be thinking about escaping anymore, because once he was lifted up by the bull's head, his chances of escaping were basically zero.

After the Alistar knocks the enemy up, he can use his E skill to ring the bell. Combined with Sejuani's combo damage and passive crowd control, even a god couldn't escape.

He was just wondering why Alistar's Flash was ready so quickly.

But upon closer reflection, it does seem to be quite accurate; Alistar's earlier Flash was used to contest the Rift Herald.

The time between Lin Ruo taking down the Rift Herald and releasing it was almost exactly in the latter half of the time shortly after the Rift Herald disappeared, which means it took more than 3 minutes, not to mention the more than one minute of fighting in the top and bottom lanes.

It's definitely time for Alistar to reactivate Flash.

Aiming, having come to this conclusion, watched helplessly as he died, and could only feel profound sorrow.

Did Lin Ruo even calculate this accurately? There were clearly good opportunities to release the Rift Herald earlier, but he didn't take them much, instead targeting the period when Alistar was about to use Flash to recover.

Furthermore, after ensuring that Taliyah was driven to the bottom jungle and would definitely engage in a trade against the bottom lane, he made the decision to immediately recall as soon as the Rift Herald was released.

Everything seemed to be a series of interconnected steps, with each step building upon the previous one until the pit was completely dug.

Aiming was completely dumbfounded when she realized she was being led astray.

When the triple kill notification sounded again throughout the venue, it not only indicated that China had gained a huge advantage in the early stages, but also that this pig would no longer be able to be defeated by them.

The bigger problem is... the game seems to be over.

The top laner had no advantage, and the bot lane, which was supposed to be supporting, was even worse off than the top laner. Even Fiora, who is naturally countered in the mid lane, didn't exert much pressure.

The early game loss from that wave of deaths and the two waves of minions was too much for Faker's Fiora, causing him to be caught out by Irelia even when he was pushing the lane and wanted to support the bottom lane.

This match, and the one that follows, is now completely decided.

(End of this chapter)