When he came back to his senses.
Their health bars were still more or less the same, but the potion in his inventory when he had left base had somehow been consumed during the tense laning phase. Meanwhile, Jinx still had her potion untouched in her item slot.
How was that possible!?
"Wait, he was actually hiding something!?"
In the Champion ADC Group, every active champion ADC stared with their mouths wide open. Forget T1's Coaching Staff—even the seasoned veterans who scrimmed Luo Zhen every day had never seen this form of his.
That feeling of shock.
It was like finishing Redfall, Demon Gollum, Order of the Masters, the Grimfang Incident, and Dust-Sealed Continent, thinking that this year couldn't possibly get any crazier—only for a God to suddenly appear out of nowhere.
They really couldn't hold it together.
"Wait, he's not seriously going to unveil some future form of mine in the Summer Split and absolutely crush me with it, is he?" JKL suddenly asked, plunging the Champion ADC Group into silence.
LWX: "Why do I suddenly feel like retiring?"
Viper: "Honestly, suddenly going back to the LCK doesn't sound so bad."
The other ADCs: ...
The Champion ADC Group was already like this, but Gumayusi in T1's player booth was having an even harder time.
For this rematch, he had put in countless hours of effort. He had even boldly claimed that he would be able to withstand the lane no matter what this time. Yet only a few minutes in, his first potion on red-start Aphelios had already been used up.
If he got forced back to base later, wouldn't those truck drivers send him straight to another world after the match?
At that moment, Gumayusi experienced the pain of Starfield before it had even released. Expectations that