League of Legends: League of Unknowns

“Dai, how much more for your Last Whisper?” Hades asked.

Asmodai’s build was different from other ADCs. After getting his Trinity Force, he didn’t immediately go for a Last Whisper, instead, he bought a Statikk Shiv.

Ezreal’s clearing wave capacities weren’t that fast, he would need to rely on his ulti for a faster clear. Deciding to buy a Statikk Shiv first had a good effect at the bottom lane, and even if he faced a Draven that had an advantage, he wasn’t at too much of a disadvantage himself.

Statikk Shiv was a good item for ADCs who didn’t have much CC in their hands, and adding on the fact that Ezreal’s Q-skill could proc the effect was a bonus. Of course, Hades himself prefered a Statikk Shiv.

After the Statikk Shiv, you would need to buy a Last Whisper. It was obvious that Mundo at the top lane was on a tank build, and in this season, a lot of the ADCs spent a lot of time facing Tops. If you didn’t have a Last Whisper, you would realize that the damage you were able to deliver in a teamfight was like peanuts, especially against champions like Mundo, where if you didn’t kill him in one shot, his health would just regenerate…

“I should have enough after this wave.” Asmodai replied.

By playing as the ADC day in and day out, Asmodai was completely familiar with the price and gold needed for each item. As expected, once the wave was done with, Asmodai recalled back to base for his Last Whisper.

Trinity Force, Last Whisper, Statikk Shiv, with these three items combined, Ezreal’s total damage was obviously taken to a whole new level.

“Take the middle lane wave and get a Vampiric Scepter. We’re about to go head-on in a teamfight, we can’t let them keep pushing us like this.” Hades said seriously.

They needed to engage in a teamfight. Team Skycrown excelled at these kinds of non-confrontational tactics, and up till the point when they had enough gold lead, they would use their advantage in the superior items they had to win the teamfights. It was easy for them to continue holding the advantage and continue to win if they took this route.

The more you shied away from initiating the fight with them, the easier it was for them to snowball.

One glance told him that Asmodai’s ADC’s development was not bad and he had acquired enough damage. They needed to take this chance to initiate the fight with their enemies!

“Your Void Staff is not out yet.” Asmodai said, his voice heavy.

The champion, Ziggs, had three core items, Athena’s Unholy Grail for mana and cooldown reduction, Rabadon’s Deathcap for damage, and Void Staff for magic penetration. These items would guarantee the most effective damage output from him.

Asmodai felt that with Hades himself not being able to purchase a Void Staff, there was no reason for the latter to let him farm the gold. After all, Hades contributed more to the team than he did in terms of damage anyway.

“It won’t be enough for me to buy it. If I’m not wrong, they’re coming for our bottom lane turret now. You have to hurry it up.” Hades said.

Asmodai didn’t bother refuting anymore, quickly heading toward the middle lane to get that bit of gold. At the same time, he took the red buff and some of the other monster camps that initially should have been given to Hades for that extra gold.

Just as he had purchased the Vampiric Scepter, Team Skycrown made their appearance at their bottom lane.

As expected of Hades, he had managed to once again see through their ploy.

Team Daemons were quick to rally to defend this time, they weren’t giving Team Skycrown any chance to block off their path this time.

Da Luo’s Mundo was doing the same thing again, but he was overwhelmed by the amount of skills thrown at him this round, his health reducing by one third immediately.

Da Luo was worried that he would die to an Ignite eventually and thus, he retreated.

“Their defense this time was quite fast.” Da Luo muttered unhappily.

“Do we retreat or force it?” Zhou Yan asked.

Luocheng hesitated. It was obvious that Team Daemons had seen through their plan, it was impossible to take the turret at this time.

However, if they delayed it for too long and Ziggs was able to acquire all his items, Team Skycrown would be subjected to a lot of painful bombing.

That is to say, if they walked back right now, there was a possibility that Team Skycrown would lose a lot of health before the teamfight started. There were only two ways they could initiate the fight, the first was for Zhou Yan’s Elise to target the squishy opponents, and the second was for Luocheng to go in and kick the ADC or Mid from the enemies, letting Gragas follow up with his Ultimate to scatter them. The second choice was not that wise as Gragas’ ulti was meant to make damage, not just scatter the enemies.

A large wave of minions pushed toward the turret, and Luocheng’s Lee Sin was not like the normal Jungler Lee Sins who would flank at the side to harass their opponents, but instead, he was standing in the middle of his team.

Both sides were at a standstill and Luocheng was hard-pressed to give up on this attack.

Whether it was Ziggs or Ezreal, they both had strong poke capabilities. If they proceeded like this, the ones forever at a disadvantage would be Team Skycrown.

“Retreat, we’ll wait for the Dragon to respawn.” Luocheng said.

The five of them moved into their opponent’s jungle, clearing out the camps along the way.

Just as they were retreating, Belial’s Vi suddenly launched a punch directly into Zhou Yan’s face.

Zhou Yan had just killed the Wight, and he didn’t expect Vi to come through the wall to attack him.

Mystic Shot, Bouncing Bomb, Hexplosive Minefield, slow…

You could see a lot of skills being thrown onto Zhou Yan’s champion, and before you could blink, he only had half of his health left!

You couldn’t help but be surprised at Team Daemons’ assault. A bunch of things being thrown over, and if you were slow in reacting and allowed yourself to be hit by Ezreal and Ziggs’ ulti, you would be killed instantly!

Zhou Yan didn’t have enough vision on this side and he was afraid that the two ulti were incoming, so he Rappel-ed up into the sky to hide from any more skill shots.

Team Skycrown were getting ready to take the Dragon, but they turned around when they saw Zhou Yan had gotten caught.

Zhou Yan didn’t have his Flash and he didn’t have a target for his Rappel. There was a minefield waiting for him to land down to the ground, and it was highly likely that he would die to their hands. Vi still had her Ultimate after all.

“Fight!” Luocheng shouted decisively.

If they brushed off this fight, Zhou Yan’s Elise would die. Next they would have to give up on the Dragon, and looking at the minion wave, their middle lane turret would also be going down. With all these combined, Team Daemons would be able to claim back the 3,000 gold difference!

It was already hard enough to gain that 3,000 gold lead in advantage against Team Daemons, they needed to fight this round!

***

“Team Daemons is really clever here, they let Vi engage, and then Ziggs, Ezreal, and Karma attacked Elise through the wall. This way Team Skycrown will find it hard to counter-attack, because how would they be able to look through the wall to find Ziggs and Ezreal, who are the real threat!” Bao Jun watched as the fight broke out, the excitement clear in his voice as he exclaimed loudly.

Teamfight!

They were finally having a proper teamfight!

The entire arena was on fire, they had been waiting for this teamfight until they they thought they would go crazy. Everybody watching had very high expectations for Team Daemons and Team Skycrown’s teamfight, adding on the explosive opening that they had had in these two games, it was really thrilling and mind-boggling!

Would Gale Crane’s Elise die?

There was only two seconds on Rappel, how would Elise run after touching down?

At this point, the other four members of Team Skycrown had already turned back, it didn’t take long for them to return. It looked as though Team Daemons had already been prepared for this, and Charon’s Shyvana immediately activated her ulti, pouncing on them!

This pounce actually caught all four of them, and the dragon flame which burned under her had caught all of them inside of it as well.

Wu Sen had been standing in front of the team, and as soon as he saw something was wrong with the situation, he ignored Shyvana and rushed forward, throwing his ulti toward Ezreal and Ziggs to scatter them!

His goal in doing so was to rescue Zhou Yan, otherwise, the latter wouldn’t have anywhere to run to at all!

A huge barrel of wine flew through the air, the purple liquid bursting out and causing a huge wave, blasting Ezreal and Ziggs into the distance, preventing them from landing anymore hits onto Elise!

Asmodai’s reaction was quick, and the moment Gragas raised his hands to throw the barrel, he cast his E-skill to move to the side, beautifully avoiding Wu Sen’s ulti.

When Zhou Yan’s Elise landed on ground, Asmodai’s Ezreal continued to attack her through the wall.

Zhou Yan came downward in a panic, if it hadn’t been for Hades’ Ziggs getting blasted away, what little health he had left would have definitely been taken away!

“Oh! Look out below!”

A piercing scream and you could see Hades’ Ziggs throwing a gigantic bomb outward!

The giant bomb went up into the air, casting a large shadow on the group that had been caught by Shyvana’s ulti previously!

Boom!

Flames burst out from the explosion, the shockwave pushing everything backward. Ziggs’ Ultimate was basically a nuclear bomb in the Summoner’s Rift, the flames licking upward were just gorgeous, and the damage it dealt was just amazing!

Hades’ development on Ziggs was good, and if he had had magic penetration, it was possible that his ulti could even shave off half of Lin Dong’s Draven’s life!

Lin Dong was still caught up with Shyvana, all the damage that he possessed had to be focused on Charon’s Shyvana. If he got any nearer and was carelessly attacked by Ezreal’s Q-skill or some of Ziggs’ skills, he was basically dead!

Lin Dong’s Draven had bought a Bloodthirster and both Spinning Axes were in his hands.

When Draven held his two Spinning Axes and attacked, you could see the axes rotating on back to his hands like a boomerang with a nice yellow indicator on the ground.

The axes were dancing, Lin Dong’s hand speed was really amazing. In this situation, he did not miss catching a single axe, and even with Shyvana chasing him, he was able to lifesteal his health back and maintain his attacks!

Charon’s health was dropping continuously and this made him anxious, wanting to return to the fountain to regenerate his health and buy a Thornmail so that this Draven could get killed by his own attacks!

Draven’s damage was really too high, he could easily solo against Shyvana with not much pressure.

On the other side, Zhou Yan’s Elise, who had just a little bit of health left, was still scurrying downward. He only had one fourth of his health left, just a few more hits and he would be dead.

He stepped into the bushes and Luocheng suddenly reminded him of something.

Zhou Yan turned around, and with a glance, he saw a deep yellow energy projectile coming toward him with the intent to kill, directly sealing off the entire path that Zhou Yan was on!

Whoosh!

“Nice, Asmodai’s ulti tracked down Gale Crane’s Elise who had hidden from their sight, taking her down!” Bao Jun exclaimed.

Once Zhou Yan had died, Luocheng’s heart sank a bit more.

The location that Team Daemons had picked for the teamfight was perfect, all Ziggs and Ezreal needed were obstacles in front of them to aid them in their damage output without getting damaged. They had chosen to hide behind the wall behind the Wight camp and shoot from there as it was difficult to touch them from this side!

He finally understood what Zhang Aijing meant when she had told him not to intentionally head into a teamfight with Team Daemons so easily. From the perspective of initiating, Team Daemons had really chosen the perfect time to initiate the teamfight.