If the players on the field were experiencing heaven and hell at this moment, then the fans watching outside the broadcast room were riding a roller coaster of pure thrill—one with a ninety-degree drop.
[Holy shit, Instant Explosion!!!]
[Who the fuck would've expected it? V5 suddenly stopped studying tactics and started reading The Art of War.]
[After watching today's match, DRX and DK immediately placed overnight orders for The Art of War.]
[There are too many ways for this composition to engage. If T1 makes even the slightest positioning mistake against V5's comp, they'll get punished hard. At first, I was worried V5 wouldn't see that, but it turns out they saw it even more clearly than we did.]
The result was a zero-for-four trade, with only Zeus escaping after ulting in the opposite direction.
But that no longer mattered.
They left two people on the Elemental Dragon while the other three headed straight for Baron Nashor. They had planned this for so long, even sacrificing their carry's development, all to gamble on one huge play against their opponents. T1 had clearly never expected V5 to pull something like this. It was like how Christians could never understand why a totem derived from the Bible, representing abundance, joy, and happiness, would become a symbol of... emmmm... chastity and restraint after appearing on someone's belly.
Even the neighboring The Twin Dragons of the Tang Dynasty knew that taking both dragons meant taking everything.
And in a match, V5, having secured both dragons, had naturally taken a massive step toward victory.
T1 could no longer defend.
The pseudo team wipe, Baron Nashor, and the follow-up macro play suddenly created an Economic Difference of nearly six thousand.
The Water Dragon Soul further increased V5's margin for error. Now, when T1 saw Malphite and