Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Luocheng’s best skill was not at using a Support champion to get kills, but rather, using the Support’s unique skills to progressively suppress the opponent.
Suppressing their experience gain, level gain, mental pressure, those minor harassments that would eventually drive people crazy. And once their opponent’s heart was in a mess, they would begin to expose their weakness and carelessness, and they wouldn’t be far from death!
Orianna threw a combination of skills at Annie in frustration, and Annie took a step forward, sparks flying in her hands as she threw out a Disintegrate straight into the face of The Lady of Clockwork!
Graves’ reaction was not slow either, the moment Annie released her flames, he activated his E—Quickdraw with a basic attack and directly using his ulti, taking away almost half of Orianna’s health!
Incinerate!
The flames surged forward, landing the 1.75 seconds stun and within this time, Annie and Graves would be able to easily take down Orianna’s remaining health!
Shaoying was startled so badly that he immediately Flashed and even threw on his Barrier as he made his escape.
Luocheng had already made his calculations on his damage, and before Orianna had flashed, he had thrown an Ignite on her. With her barrier lasting less than five seconds, Ignite would burn her at the last second.
Bringing Ignite into the match as a Support, he was really focused on the damage and getting kills!
Shaoying’s face turned red with anger, knowing that he had wasted his Flash, as in the end, he had still died.
Now he would have a difficult time without his Flash!
Vi only came to cover the middle lane after Orianna had died. Annie and Graves ignored her and directed their attacks onto the turret instead. Seven minutes into the game and the mid lane turret had only less than one fifth of its health left, the next wave of creeps could probably bring it down.
Recalling back to their base, Graves and Annie’s wallets were bursting with gold. Graves immediately bought a B.F Sword, forget about slow and steady, they were going all in!
Luocheng bought a Sightstone, shoes and a vision ward. You could tell how rich the Support was with the items in hand!
Returning to lane, Orianna had finally managed to comfortably clear a wave of creeps, reaching level seven. At level seven, Orianna’s clearing was better, and as long as she continued to farm under the turret, it would be slightly harder to deny her experience and income.
Luocheng planted a ward at the brush outside the Wraiths Camp, clearing a vision ward Vi had planted before at the same time. After completing his task, he returned to the lane to poke Orianna.
Shaoying was frustrated, he knew that Annie and Graves would have their Flash by now. If Annie Flashed forward to ulti, followed up by Graves’ Flash and ulti, there would be no escape from death. That was why Shaoying refused to leave the safety of the turret, farming from a distance instead.
***
At the bottom lane, Jax had already reached level eight, while Ezreal and Sona were still at level six.
“Wait for him to use his Q, then we’ll go all in!” Qiming told Sona.
Even with the two of them against Jax, they were only leading in CS by a measly five. Jax’s farming was good, and he had already bought a Bilgewater Cutlass and a Ruby Crystal. With these items, they could forcefully be killed by Jax if they weren’t careful.
Qiming made an error on purpose, walking into the wrong position and Jax took the bait, jumping straight onto him!
Sona immediately threw her Exhaust at him, reducing his damage. Once Exhaust faded off, she activated her ulti, stunning Jax in place to cut off his escape.
Ezreal was calmly attacking Jax during this time, with the mindset to definitely kill off this Jax.
After the stun wore off, Jax only had about one third of his health left. Instead of retreating, Jax chose to activate Counter Strike and jumped into Ezreal’s face!
“He’s looking to die, still wanting to fight us!” Qiming had assumed that Jax would use it to escape, but he didn’t expect Jax to rush forward to them instead!
With that little health, even if he had Flash, he wouldn’t be able to escape!
“Yeah, Tibbers!”
A cunning voice full of malice rang out from behind them, Ezreal and Sona didn’t even have the time to turn around before they were engulfed by a huge shadow of raging flames!
Roar!
A humongous bear fell from the sky in flames, his arse landing directly on Ezreal and Sona’s faces!
The two of them were stunned from the impact, and before they could collect their wits and figure out what had happened, their health had dropped drastically!
You should never underestimate the amount of damage Annie could bring, using her three skills combo, she could easily take down more than half of a champion’s health!
Jax smirked with glee and raised his lamp post, pouncing on them and taking away the last bit of health left!
DOUBLE KILL!
Jax had gotten a double kill in exchange for his Flash! The bottom lane had once again died tragically, and Zhejiang University students were once again silenced in awe.
“F*ck! Where did this Annie come from! Why didn’t the middle lane report that Annie was missing!” Qiming shouted in anger.
This Annie had appeared too suddenly, even though both the tribrush and river had been warded, how the hell had she appeared from the back of them!
“I…I was taking the blue buff, didn’t you guys ward?” Shaoying said.
Shaoying hadn’t noticed when Annie had left the lane, and he was aware that there were wards in the tribush, how the heck had Annie avoided all those wards and appeared at the bot lane…
If he had walked in from the tribush in the red buff area, there was already a ward there. There wouldn’t have been enough time for her to reach the bot lane like that if they had seen her, and Shaoying knew that Annie had still been in the lane ten seconds prior to that.
Luocheng’s roam had been a bit too sudden, and he had even brought his ulti out to match up with Jax’s damage output, once again, giving a beautiful assist to his teammate to get a double kill.
Ezreal and Sona’s bottom lane could practically give the announcement that their turret had been destroyed, because the two of them would definitely not be able to win Jax.
***
Three minutes later when the scene played out on the screen in Shanghai University, the OB camera was coincidentally on Luocheng’s Annie.
Everyone remembered that just thirty seconds before, Annie had disposed of the ward at the entrance of the Wraith Camps that had been protecting the bottom lane.
Thirty seconds later, when Orianna had gone to get her blue buff, Annie had purposely gone through the same way and invaded the opponent’s jungle. After passing the top of the Dragon Pit, right before entering the tribush, she had actually used her Flash! Near the brush below the red buff, she had leaned as close as she could to the wall and Flashed over to the far left of the Krugs Camp, happily skipping to the back of the two who were blissfully unaware.
At that moment, Ezreal and Sona were assaulting Jax, and Annie had just swaggered up to them, activating her ulti right there!
Seeing this scene, everyone had to reevaluated their thoughts…
This wasn’t a Support, this definitely was not a Support!
What the f*ck, wasn’t this how a Mid Annie would be playing instead!
ZJU team had written off Annie as a Support and were more concerned about the whereabouts of Elise. Once Elise was visible on the map, they could farm with a slightly better peace of mind. They didn’t expect that the Support would be the one invading their jungle, Flashing to avoid the vision the wards gave and even ganking the bot lane!
Everyone had ignored Annie’s level six breakthrough and the possibility that she would roam. They had completely underestimated this SHU Support who had never played by the normal rules!
“F*ck, the news that this freshman was simply unorthodox and outstanding was true!”
“Yeah, he was aware that the bottom lane would have wards at that place. Even if it was me, I wouldn’t be able to hide from that ward so easily with Flash…”
Flash was so valuable that many people would wait until it was unavoidable before using it. However, at times, it would be used unexpectedly, like bypassing the most critical field of vision and appearing at the opponent’s back. This was better than letting them see you use your Flash to move forward and ulti, because this would give them time to react and use their own Flash to avoid it.
Luocheng was not playing the game with the usual rule of common sense, and yet, he successfully managed to establish advantages for his teammate to obtain a double kill and bring down the bottom lane.
***
With two assists previously, Luocheng was able to buy another vision ward, and immediately proceeded to plant a deep ward in the opponent’s jungle area.
Sona had not even been able to build a Sightstone yet, and if their vision control was seized like this, they wouldn’t be safe even if they stood underneath their inner bottom lane turret. After all, who could guarantee that Elise, Graves, and Annie would all come to the bottom lane when they went missing at their respective lanes?
With their middle lane turret also going down, ZJU team’s vision fell completely to SHU team’s control.
Vi’s position was known to them, but even so, the bottom lane didn’t even dare to farm in peace. Orianna was also camping under the turret, and their freedom of movement was restricted to what they could see.
Their outer middle lane turret, red buff area, and the bottom lane Krugs Camp area was being controlled by SHU, not to mention, the Dragon was practically already in their hands. No matter how many times it spawned, it was theirs for the taking.
Even if Shen were to ulti down to any fights, Ryze could easily do the same with his Teleport.
Feilong was also having a hard time because Elise had been camping his lane, and his own Jungler—Vi was unable to farm to catch up.
***
“F*ck, did they change their group of people? I don’t remember SHU being so good!” Shaoying cursed.
In the first match, ZJU had bullied them mercilessly, not even giving them any breathing space to retaliate.
In the second match, they were the ones being pressed to the ground like dogs. They were either being camped by the Jungler, or being dived under turrets. It was only eighteen minutes into the game and all three outer turrets had fallen, this was faster and worse than the previous game when they had done the same to SHU!
Can you imagine, Orianna had just managed to build Athene’s Unholy Grail at eighteen minutes, and that was also only because he had sold his Doran Ring?
Ezreal didn’t even have Trinity Force, and Sona couldn’t build her Sightstone and had to rely on Stealth Wards and Vision Wards.
Although Vi was slowly catching up, the middle and bottom lanes had suffered too much. Graves could easily shave off half her life with his skill combos, and this was even with her building tank items…
If this wasn’t their home ground, and it was impossible for SHU to cheat, Zhejiang University students would really suspect that this second match was played by an entirely different team!
