Chapter 419 - Repeat Victory!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Luocheng activated the Talisman of Ascension’s movement speed buff, and charged headlong into the fray. Never mind how many champions he could lock down—when Kennen rushed past the tower and then went golden, all of Team Revelation’s champions turned and fled.

Following the same plan as always, Team Skycrown toppled the tower first before proceeding further. After the tower, the Inhibitor was the next to fall.

Hao Yue couldn’t endure another moment of this torment. Activating his own ulti, he rushed to meet the enemy.

Before he could even come within reach of Draven or Cassiopeia, the two of them unleashed their overwhelming damage upon him, eliminating him instantly.

Bai Feng’s Lucian remained at a safe distance, making his own feeble attacks. With the pathetic gear he was packing, he didn’t even give pause to Trundle, who by now was built like a brick house.

***

“It looks like Team Skycrown is a hard counter to Team Revelation,” Forgetful Laughter said to Aijing, beside him. “Their pace is too fast to follow, and Lucian has been completely left behind—neutralizing about half of Team Revelation’s combat power.”

“Yeah. Still, the sheer power of Team Skycrown… it kinda scares me,” Aijing said earnestly.

Thinking back to the year before, Team Skycrown had used an array of brilliant tactics to defeat Team Revelation. Each game was over within thirty minutes. As an additional consideration, Bai Feng’s equipment had been steadily improving with time, quietly presenting the possibility of a comeback. This suggested that in spite of an economic advantage, Team Skycrown didn’t take any chances.

This year’s match, however, showed no hint anywhere of Team Skycrown possibly having the game taken away from them. They were in full control here, and their teamwork was simply breath-taking. When to storm in, when to fall back, when to push the waves, when to sweep the jungles… it was as though every detail had already been laid out ahead of time.

In comparison, Team Revelation had demonstrated nothing in the way of coordinated strategy. From start to finish, their only accomplishment was killing off Kennen that one time at the beginning of the game.

Finishing the game in twenty-three minutes, despite the pace of the game being greatly slowed down this competitive season. It was hard to believe that you were watching a team which had stood among the best four in the country several years in a row, being defeated by a team that had been in the LPL for barely a year!

***

One might suggest that perhaps, during the first round, Team Skycrown had been in top form, and had managed to hold on to their advantage all throughout the game, so that was the main reason why Team Revelation looked bad.

As it happened, the second game was finished in twenty-five minutes. The spectating pro players were too shocked for words.

Twenty-three minutes for the first game, twenty-five minutes for the next one…

In the second game, Team Skycrown had employed a Lane-Swapping strategy: The Bot-lane duo had gone up to the Top lane to bully Team Revelation’s Rengar. At Level 3, Zhou Yan had brought Elise over and, together with Luocheng and Lin Dong, they’d killed Rengar right underneath his own tower, before reducing the tower itself to ruins.

Once that was done, the duo had returned to the Bottom lane, leaving a financially destitute Rengar to be torn to pieces by Da Luo’s Renekton.

That time around, Team Skycrown hadn’t pulled out any new tricks—just a simple lane swap and tower dive, and they’d neutered the enemy Top-laner, so that he became easy pickings for a player of Da Luo’s caliber, who’d easily won the lane.

Twenty-five minutes, and then it was over.

The whole time, it was as though Team Revelation had been caught in a dream, never knowing what to do with their own champions. Typically relying on long-term scaling builds, it was peculiar to see them losing their towers so quickly. When they tried to shore up their losses by delving into the jungle to hunt for wild creeps, that only made them easier to pick off.

It had been a discombobulating experience. Despite Bai Feng’s considerable individual abilities, an under-developed ADC nevertheless asserted scant little impact on the outcome of a game.

Typically, an ADC champion only achieved its full potential after the twenty-five-minute mark.

But the game had ended in twenty-five minutes.

For all of Bai Feng’s skill, none of it could be brought to bear.