Because of the Flash exchange in the previous skirmish, Luo Zhen's Flash was still on cooldown this time.
Since he could no longer control the spacing, what he needed next was micro-control.
"And then... Uzi committed the sin of pride."
He went from retreating at the start to suddenly moving forward.
With a quick turnaround, he pulled over two hundred units away from Aphelios, who had painstakingly Flashed into face-to-face range.
Auto Attack, sidestep, kite again, then Q.
Even though Aphelios's Flash had put Zeri within his Attack Range, the two hundred-plus units created by that sudden turn, coupled with the extra Movement Speed from her ultimate, effortlessly widened the gap between them again.
Little Lu Bu was disgusted beyond belief.
He clearly could beat this Zeri. Whether it was his item advantage or his late-game stats, he should have been completely crushing her right now. Yet the Zeri before him was like a mosquito in the dead of night, firmly controlling her distance from him and... slowly burning away what little sanity he had left.
That absolutely perfect Distance Control turned Zeri's Kiting into a work of art, utterly shocking the entire arena. Even T1 Group's attempts to resist weakened because of it.
They could only watch helplessly as Aphelios was kited, damaged, and mentally broken.
Even when Aphelios threw out his final ultimate—Red Blade—toward Zeri, only for her to evade it with the speed boost, Keria clearly heard the sound of someone beside him pounding on a keyboard.
Then, everything suddenly fell silent.
Because—with Zeri's final W fired from behind a wall, followed by a string of Crit Damage numbers appearing on-screen—
Aphelios was killed right before everyone's eyes.
[V5's AK has slain T1's Gumayusi]
Countless viewers went blank. Commentators from every region looked possessed, their mouths wide