You call this thing stable?

6000...4000...2000

At this timing, both junglers had their 900 damage smites available.

Let me explain, in the 11.10 meta, smite received its biggest mechanical change in a decade—the smite damage is no longer tied to the jungler's level, becoming a fixed 450 before upgrading and 900 after. Since smite was changed to have five upgrades, junglers in professional play have basically been taking Cosmic Insight as a secondary rune. This is because normally, without Cosmic Insight, you finish your five smites at 7:30, and the 900 smite becomes available at 9:00.

However, with Cosmic Insight, you finish your five smites at 6:35, and the 900 smite is available around 8:00, which is more conducive to contesting the Rift Herald fight.

So, in this play, both junglers were actually starting from the same point.

"It's up to you, Brother Ka."

"I'll do my best. Create some space for me to engage."

"No problem."

Since it all came down to smiting, and this kind of luck-based gamble only mattered if he got into the Dragon pit, anything was possible. With the Rift Herald at its final 2000 health, Karsa's Xin Zhao directly activated his ultimate ability, and marked the Rift Herald at the mouth of the Dragon pit with his W skill.

Then... just as Trundle preemptively threw his E, attempting to interrupt Xin Zhao's E skill engage.

"Whoosh~" He flashed forward, doing the opposite.

And then.

"Bang~" The smite claw fell.

By the time the richest player finally realized this was a feint to the east, attack to the west, and prepared to contest the smite, it was already too late.

[Xin Zhao defeated the Rift Herald]

Karsa got it!

Chapter 18: I Am Hope!

"Holy crap, Brother Ka is so good!"

"World's Number 1 Jungler, Brother Ka is the World's Number 1 Jungler in my heart this game!"

"No, no, I'm not asking for your evaluations, someone save me! Save me!"

"Okay, Brother Ka has spoken. Everyone obey the order: Collapse, Retreat, Sell, Flee! Brothers, let's run!"

???

"Wait, I'm the hero, the hero! You're just going to abandon me like this?"

"Don't say it, Brother Ka, we loved you~"

For V5, what was important was that the opponents didn't get the Rift Herald. Who got it, or whether anyone picked it up, wasn't important.

The opponents had all five members gathered, while they only sent four. As long as not too many people died, contesting the Rift Herald was a pure profit play.

WBG was stunned.

Corki directly activated his Yordle Snap Trap to lock down enemies, Trundle then used his ultimate ability to suck them in and charged at V5 with his club. As for Xin Zhao, who engaged to steal the Rift Herald, he was now being point-blank attacked by the enemy Graves.

"Can we escape? Can we escape?"

"No, that guy's Yordle Snap Trap angle is too good, we're trapped."

"Can we fight back? What's 369's position?"

"My position is pretty good, but the damage output isn't enough!"

With Xin Zhao already confirmed to be dead, how much damage could a level six Kennen's ultimate do? Even with Poppy, at most they could only clean up one or two, and then the rest would be chased down and killed.

Unless a new damage source came in.

Wait!

A new damage source?

"That's not right, Xiao Zhen, Xiao Zhen, where are you? Brother Ka already stole the Rift Herald, why aren't you here yet?" As everyone was desperately trying to flee like stray dogs, Rookie suddenly remembered someone.

The damage output from top and mid lanes combined wasn't enough, but adding the ADC would fix that, right?

With that thought, everyone's eyes swept over and they were shocked to find their ADC currently under the enemy mid lane turret, even quietly starting to take down its plate.

This scene made Rookie's eyes widen.

"Holy crap, Xiao Zhen, you..."

"Ahem, well, I saw you guys were so focused on contesting the Dragon that I didn't have the heart to disturb you. But it's okay, I've already pushed the mid lane, the enemy mid laner lost a wave of minions, and I gained a wave here. Roughly speaking, we're ahead by two waves, so this is pure profit."

V5 members: ???

He could naturally see the situation in the upper river. From the bottom of his heart, he was prepared to engage in the teamfight, but the hero Samira, without level six, really couldn't engage and clean up effectively. So, he was just farming, wasn't he?

Farming the solo lane in the bot lane and farming in the mid lane had allowed him to completely make up for the experience he lost from his previous death, and even slightly surpass it.

So...

Another auto-attack crippled the minion, and then the level five Samira began to walk towards the bush in the upper river area from the mid lane. The moment he walked into the corner, accompanied by the death of that newly spawned melee minion, the glow of level six finally appeared on Samira.

Instantly, the V5 members stopped panicking, stopped complaining, and even their escape movements became much more fluid.

Ah, this damned sense of security!

Seeing this, PPGOD's Nautilus started to hook back, looking like he was trying to sacrifice himself to allow his teammates to escape. Seeing this, the WBG group chased even harder.

The Rift Herald was lost, the Yordle Snap Traps were used, and if they didn't make a strong comeback this round, they'd be at a massive disadvantage.

Just as WBG's backline caught up to the frontline, and the group prepared to charge and take objectives.

369's Kennen made his move!

He Flashed over the wall, activated Lightning Strike, and just as ON, the quickest to react, prepared to ult him away.

"Swish~"

Flash + W, Rookie's Poppy moved faster than ON, engaging from the opposite direction and fearing Xin Zhao in place.

What was the meaning of this?

With Rookie's Flash fear, WBG's members suddenly couldn't understand V5's intention.

Your support clearly sacrificed himself to let you escape, yet you two carries, mid and top, charged back like fools. Did you really think Kennen's items at 8 minutes were enough to pull off a Heavenly Thunder famous scene?

No way, right?

Just as the group was stunned by Kennen's lightning, waiting for the crowd control duration to end before unleashing their fury, from the bush, a champion they never expected appeared: a level six... Lucian!

WBG members: !!!

Before they could even react to how this AD suddenly hit level six, Luo Zhen had already stacked his score as quickly as possible, transformed into a spinning top, and charged directly into WBG's formation.

Auto-attack + Flash + Auto-attack + W + E + Q + R

And then came... R [Seventh Wing Movement]!

When Luo Zhen's Samira, transformed into Lucian, unleashed the Blade Storm famous scene within the crowd after activating her awakened [Seventh Wing Movement].

The situation had changed.

Heavenly Thunder, Storm, and Fear descended.

V5's three carries, their skills complementing each other, became terrifying weapons for sweeping the battlefield, and WBG's formation began to crumble.

It couldn't be helped.

Level six Heavenly Thunder damage wasn't enough, and level six Blade Storm damage was also negligible, but when the two ultimates combined, plus Poppy, who could infinitely refresh her R skill by getting kills, this combination became incredibly invincible.

A 3 for 5 wipeout.

With the jungle and support sacrificed, V5 managed to pull off a miraculous 4v5 teamfight through a counter-attack. When Poppy rushed back to the Dragon pit, he even picked up the Rift Herald that Karsa had Smited earlier.

This teamfight was a massive win for V5!

[Holy crap! AK! It's him again!!!]

[He's here, Big Brother is spinning, Big Brother is amazing!]

[The coordination on those ultimates is too good, is this really Pinxi xi's new team?]

[V5 boss: Do you understand the value of 16 consecutive losses with bounty? (hands on hips)!]

Originally.

Everyone thought Karsa's Smite steal was the swan song, and the subsequent outcome would just be whether two or three died. From a kill perspective, V5 was at a disadvantage, but in terms of strategic significance, V5 had definitely profited.

The problem was... how did this AD suddenly hit level six?

"See? What did I tell you guys before I joined? I'm V5's savior! You know, the savior! The one who started with a grenade launcher and took out two zombies with one burst!" After cleaning up the battlefield, Luo Zhen immediately perked up.

Honestly, his level six counter-attack this round could be called a textbook play for the AD position.

Once this famous scene spread today, wouldn't his value skyrocket? Thinking of this, Luo Zhen became emotional!

"You've seen Marvel, right? A certain purple sweet potato spirit once said: In finite parallel universes, nothing is meaningful; in infinite parallel universes, anything is possible."

"And I am hope!"

Chapter 19: The Willing Will Take the Bait

When the RA members, thousands of kilometers away from the arena, saw WBG get overturned by V5, almost at the same instant, all the players in RA's room burst out laughing, and they laughed quite unrestrainedly.

They remembered that just last week, they had lost a Rift Herald fight in the same way, with the opposing Lucian inexplicably hitting level six.

It had only been a week, and now the same trick had defeated another team. With such a popular team like WBG taking the fall first, no one would mock them for not taking wards into teamfights anymore.

This round, V5 had achieved a win-win teamfight.

The wipeout in the Rift Herald fight was undoubtedly disastrous for WBG.

With a lineup of Kennen, Poppy, and Samira as their three carries, and V5's three carries all getting a large number of kills and assists, WBG was in serious trouble once the economic levels started to diverge.

First, Poppy.

Originally, this champion needed precise damage calculations to take down enemies in coordination with teammates. Now, with items, it was different; he could fly around recklessly, and someone else could provide a little extra damage. If Poppy continued to snowball and build Philosopher's Hat (+120 Philosophy Power, +35% Total Philosophy Power, +30% Critical Damage), wouldn't he be able to instantly kill anyone he saw?

Samira was even less of a concern.

Her nerfs had targeted her early-game damage, and her weakness was her short range, making it difficult to farm through the early to mid-game. Now that she was ahead, Samira had transformed from an ATM-like weak point into V5's primary carry assassin.

Now, she could stand on the flank alone, looking for opportunities. If you engaged her, she had W; if you ignored her, she could find an opportunity to charge in and become unstoppable, making her very difficult to control.

And these were just individual cases.

If you looked at the overall picture, V5's five-engage lineup getting such a huge advantage was like finding out on the basketball court that your opponent's power forward was Giannis Antetokounmpo or Karl Malone, their small forward was LeBron James, their shooting guard was peak Kobe Bryant, their point guard was Isiah Thomas or John Stockton, their center was Bill Laimbeer, and their bench consisted of Draymond Green, Bruce Bowen, and Zaza Pachulia.

Come, feel what it's like to be the Good Boys Legion.

This is the pressure V5 is currently putting on WBG.

And once V5 gains an advantage, it's simple: they directly implement the playstyle Coach Homme initially set, applying pressure to the opponent on all lanes simultaneously, stifling Sofm's farming space. As long as Sofm can't farm in the jungle, his playstyle will cause him to inexplicably start playing erratically.

Then comes the ganking.

For the next ten minutes, it's Luo Zhen's Samira farming in the jungle, observing the enemy's movements. As for everyone else, they are uniformly heading into the top jungle to cause trouble for Theshy.

WBG's strategy has remained unchanged from start to finish.

They never thought about playing around the top lane, let alone picking Graves, a jack of all trades, for top lane. But V5 thought about it: if Graves is ganked and shut down, and his gold can't be immediately converted into an item advantage, then Graves' split push will be very slow, and WBG won't be able to use Graves as a single target assassin to distract V5's offensive push in the mid lane.

Moreover, WBG is a group of reckless players who only have gold in their eyes.

In Das Kapital: When the profit was 10%, some people were itching to move; when the profit was 50%, some dared to take risks; when the profit was 100%, they dared to trample all human laws; and when the profit reached 300%, they would not even fear the gallows.

Are the minion waves lucrative?

Yes.

Is the jungle lucrative?

Yes.

So, when faced with danger, will Theshy and Sofm choose to hide in a safe bush and wait for the minion wave, or will they abandon their own development to protect the dual carries' development?

That's clearly impossible.

Because they are Theshy + Sofm, they will definitely brave the danger to grab that seemingly dangerous gold.

Then, Rookie will fly over and, with the help of his teammates, pick them off.

"I suddenly understand WBG's decision to buy Theshy." After repeatedly killing the enemy top laner three times, Luo Zhen finally understood the layout of WBG's boss.