As Ruler shouted,
Crown, who had respawned and headed straight top, had already arrived outside the thick wall on the red side's top lane.
W+E+Q! Sand Soldier summoned + Scuttle Shift + Flurry of Blows!
A perfect combo, smoothly crossing the wall like flowing clouds and running water, breathtaking to behold. Then he used the Flash he had saved from the previous exchange, and then...
"Eh? Why is Crown stuck?!"
The Roaring Emperor's unexpected cry came from the caster booth, speaking from the god's-eye view.
In the match, Azir visibly froze for a brief moment after Flashing. Yet it was precisely that tiny hitch that gave Xu Junyan enough time to react, immediately stepping diagonally backward and upward.
The next moment, a glittering golden turret slowly began to rise from the foundation of SKT's destroyed outer top lane turret. No one had noticed it yet.
"Ha!"
Imperial Wall!!
Crown finally stopped lagging and unleashed an Imperial Wall.
Unfortunately, Xu Junyan's diagonal backward movement kept him completely out of reach of the Imperial Wall, so naturally he wasn't shoved away.
At the same time, what truly broke KSV's spirits was that Crown missing his R wasn't even the worst part. Corejj, who had been right behind Xu Junyan and only barely out of auto-attack range, practically cast Q in his face—Tongue Lash—and then! It got dodged!!!
With that crucial Q missing, Tahm Kench couldn't stack his three passive marks. Without three stacks, Corejj couldn't swallow Xu Junyan.
Looking over the fight, after Varus landed the crowd control, the first layer of certain death—Gnar—had been poked away by Xu Junyan's Ice Pillar. The second layer—Azir's shove—had gone wrong. The third and final layer—Tahm Kench's point-blank QW—missed its Q and was dodged through movement again!
The Troll King strode away with utter swagger,