Chapter 48: Jelly, Heal Me!!

Wawa: "Judging by the current items and team economy, both sides are even. This impending clash will come down to how well 957 and Ning perform!"

957's performance this game had been exceptionally steady.

Not only had he withstood the pressure from Khan, but in terms of farm, he hadn't fallen behind his opponent in the slightest.

In the spectator perspective, the red and blue team rosters displayed each player's statistics.

The blue team lineup, spearheaded by Peanut:
Top: Renekton (Khan)
Mid: Syndra (ShowMaker)
Jungle: Jarvan IV (Peanut)
Bot Lane: Vayne + Lulu (Uzi + Mata)

On the red side, spearheaded by Lu Zilong:
Top: Gnar (957)
Mid: Viktor (Dopa)
Jungle: Sejuani (Ning)
Bot Lane: Jinx + Soraka (Lu Zilong + Jelly)

Guan Zeyuan looked at the current state of affairs and said very seriously, "I feel like the blue side is getting a bit impatient! The red side has Gnar and Sejuani, so their turn-around potential is still very strong."

"Viktor and Jinx can also provide more than enough AOE damage!"

"Not necessarily. We'll see! I think Peanut's Jarvan feels exceptionally good this game, though Ning isn't doing badly either," Miller added.

Soon, both teams converged in the top lane.

Facing the five giants of the red team, Khan's Renekton naturally didn't dare to stubbornly defend the tower, having already retreated to a safe zone.

"Peanut, are we really fighting this?" Khan, sitting beside Peanut, asked.

Peanut smiled. "Fight, of course we have to fight. Haven't you noticed Uzi's performance this game? His Vayne has been nothing short of flawless, and he's already completed his Quicksilver Sash."

"Alright."

Khan nodded. He was never one to shy away from a fight.

In the top lane, he possessed a certain degree of dominance.

Besides, Renekton's team-fighting capability was far from weak.

"I'll initiate the team fight in a moment, and you go in second. As long as we lock down their Jinx, we'll win the fight," Peanut added.

Since both were SKT players, their coordination and synergy went without saying.

As for the others, having climbed to this tier, their team-fighting awareness was self-evident.

Right now, the blue team was actively forcing a fight; they wanted to make up for the Rift Herald they had just lost by securing a victory in team fights.

"Bang—"

As the blue side's top lane tier-one tower crashed down with a deafening roar, all five members of the blue team suddenly appeared right at the site of the fallen tower!

With the team fight about to erupt, Lu Zilong positioned himself closely beside Gnar, with the support on his other side. Gnar, currently in his mega-fright state, could block a crowd-control effect for him!

From the spectator perspective, the blue team initiated aggressively. Jarvan IV executed an EQ combo, knocking Sejuani airborne and closing the distance, before instantly flashing forward with a "swoosh" and slamming his ultimate, Cataclysm, directly onto Lu Zilong's face.

"Boom!!"

Peanut's execution was lightning-fast; his EQ and ultimate flowed together seamlessly, as swift as a bolt of lightning.

Seeing Jarvan's play, Guan Zeyuan, Wawa, and Miller all involuntarily gasped:

"It's over! Jinx is about to get trapped by Jarvan's ultimate, Renekton is following up, and Syndra is loading a direct ultimate—Lu Zilong is about to be melted by sheer burst damage!"

"Damn, is this Peanut's hand speed? They're going to lose this team fight!" Miller exclaimed.

However, before anyone could finish their sentence, the screen showed Lu Zilong flashing at the exact micro-second Jarvan arose from his flash.

"Swoosh—!" Following that, everyone watched in disbelief as Jarvan executed a thunderous play... only to knock up a solitary Sejuani?

Lu Zilong remained completely unharmed.

Not only that, but the very next millisecond after his flash repositioned him, he tossed down an E ability—Flame Chompers!—right at the landing spot of Jarvan's ultimate, instantly rooting the Prince in place.

"Is this... the hand speed of a 17-year-old? It's terrifying..." Guan Zeyuan gasped, his live-stream chat instantly flooded with a sea of question marks.

The moment he failed to trap the enemy ADC in his ultimate, Peanut knew he had walked right into the tiger's den.

Fortunately, his teammates quickly followed up, all unleashing their abilities as the 5v5 team fight officially broke out, despite the blue team already losing the initiative.

Khan's Renekton immediately triggered his ultimate, dashing into the fray to absorb damage and apply crowd control, while Syndra and Vayne unleashed frantic damage from the backline!

At this moment, Lu Zilong had already repositioned to a relatively safe zone; even if Renekton entered and burned his flash, he wouldn't be able to stun him.

As soon as the enemy champions charged in, Soraka instantly tossed out her E ability to apply a silence and root.

"They're acting rashly, it's absolute chaos!" Miller cried out.

Syndra was dealing damage from the flank, and Uzi had already activated his ultimate, entering hunter mode to pour out relentless DPS.

At the same time, Lu Zilong was also returning fire. The health bars of Jarvan and Renekton plummeted precipitously!

Dopa was the first to unleash his ultimate, Chaos Storm.

Both teams had two frontline champions—jungle plus top laner—clashing fiercely.

957 was still in his mega-Gnar state, but his fury bar was rapidly depleting; once he turned back into mini-Gnar, his utility in the team fight would plummet to zero.

He knew he had to cast his ultimate immediately and manage to pin at least one of the enemy carries against a wall.

However, Vayne was simply too agile, making it impossible to land the ultimate cleanly. Moreover, Vayne's Silver Bolts hit hard, and his health was already dangerously low.

With the blue team forcing the engagement, 957 gritted his teeth. Unable to pin down the enemy backline carries, he had no choice but to direct the damage and stun of his ultimate toward the enemy top and jungle!

"Boom—!" Gnar's ultimate unleashed. Amidst the frantic exchange, Peanut's top-jungle duo fell first, granting Lu Zilong a double kill.

His passive activated, sending Jinx into her Get Excited! state, drastically boosting her movement and attack speed!

However, Gnar went down immediately afterward, resulting in a trade of two for one.

The situation instantly clarified, but Syndra used her E, Scatter the Weak, to push away Viktor and Sejuani, immediately following up with an ultimate onto Viktor!

Seeing this, Uzi capitalized on the opening, pinning Viktor against a wall with his E, quickly proc'ing his Silver Bolts to secure Dopa's head.

Team fights change in the blink of an eye. In Guan Zeyuan's broadcast room, Wawa and Miller spoke at a dizzying pace:

"Jinx enters the Get Excited state! Securing a double kill! The red team temporarily takes the advantage."

"Gnar goes down, and Vayne begins cleaning up! Lulu's Polymorph renders Soraka completely useless!"

"Viktor has been eliminated as well!!"

"Both teams are now down to just three players remaining—the blue team's carries still have all their summoner spells up. Will the remaining three red team members run?!"

"No, Lu Zilong isn't running, he's still dealing damage, this Jinx has gone completely berserk, he auto-attacks the enemy mid-lane Syndra to death—but Sejuani's ultimate missed completely!!"

"Sejuani has been eliminated!!"

"Now there are only the bot lane duos left in a 2v2 showdown!! Both ADCs boast triple kills!! Soraka's Polymorph ends, and she starts healing!"

Danmaku comments:
"Uzi is truly steady, still holding onto his summoner spells? Holy crap! Lulu hasn't even used her ultimate yet!!"
"The plays in this team fight are maxed out, he totally outplayed them, you only understand if you watch closely..."
"A clash of top-tier ADCs."
"Hahaha, Vayne's short-range flaw is exposed, Jinx has passive MS buffs, looks like the distance is widening!!"

In the broadcast booth, Wawa stepped down while Guan Zeyuan took over the commentary:

"Lulu uses her ultimate! It's not so easy to kill Vayne now!!"

Looking at the spectator screen, the battlefield was littered with corpses, leaving only the two ADCs locked in a 1v1 duel.

Lulu had committed all her spells to Vayne, whereas Soraka had held onto her ultimate this entire time, leaving it uncast.

The two chased and dueled each other, their eyes seemingly locked only on one another. Inside the EDG training facility, Lu Zilong was drenched in sweat, yet his expression remained remarkably calm.

Behind him, people had crowded around, not daring to make a sound, their eyes filled with deep anxiety as they sweated bullets for him.

Inside the RNG training facility, the corners of Uzi's mouth curved slightly upward. At this point, both of their health bars were bottomed out, but he was just one auto-attack away from proccing his third silver ring. Once that third hit landed, Lu Zilong would undoubtedly die!

Therefore, even facing the ultimate projectile unleashed by his opponent, he didn't panic in the slightest—knowing that the ultimate would at best reduce him to a sliver of health, but couldn't instantly execute him.

Inside Lu Zilong's stream, when everyone watched Vayne loose the final arrow of her silver bolts, they assumed this fiercely contested team fight would conclude with a pentakill for Uzi as its perfect finale.

At that very moment, on the face-cam feed, Lu Zilong's lips moved slightly: "Jelly, heal me!!"

Jinx's Super Mega Death Rocket!, Vayne's third bolt, and a pillar of starlight descending onto Jinx's head appeared to land at the exact same instant...

"Bang—!!"