Are all the top Korean streetball players this abnormal?

All the noise disappeared instantly after the shout of "All troops, attack!" rang out, and the air in the training room seemed to freeze.

Abu and the factory manager stood side by side behind Lee Sang-hyeok, their eyes fixed on the small display screen.

In the mid lane, Ryze and LeBlanc meet.

LeBlanc, the Deceiver, is widely recognized as the lane bully in Season 7. Her passive "Symbol of Malice" combined with her skills allows her to unleash devastating burst damage in the early game.

Scout, on the other hand, is a master of playing enchantresses.

Within seconds of going live, Scout used LeBlanc's 525-yard auto-attack range to precisely find gaps in Ryze's last-hitting opportunities.

"Snapped!"

LeBlanc landed a basic attack on Ryze.

Lee Sang-hyeok did not rush to retaliate, but instead chose to retreat slightly.

Because LeBlanc took the initiative to attack in front of the enemy minion wave, she instantly attracted the aggro of three ranged minions. The minions' glowing spots hit LeBlanc, and several damage numbers popped up.

Abu, standing at the back, frowned slightly and asked with some doubt:

"Scout was a bit too hasty at level 1. Although he managed to harass Ryze, he also took a lot of minion damage. Ryze has mana to sustain him, so this trade wasn't very profitable."

"No, he's preparing for Level 3."

The factory manager stared at the screen, his voice low and calm.

"The new version of LeBlanc can burst down most mid-lane mages with half or more health in one combo at level three."

"He's now actively trading blows, even if it means hurting the enemy 800 while losing 1000 of his own, as long as he can reduce both sides' health to below half, Ryze will have a hard time surviving the level 3 wave."

This is the mindset of a top assassin:

I can lose blood, but you must be crippled.

Abu nodded slowly, increasingly satisfied with his selection of Scout as a powerful foreign player.

Ryze seemed oblivious to LeBlanc's intentions and actually began to retaliate.

Taking advantage of LeBlanc's momentary lapse in time while she was finishing off an enemy, Ryze landed a basic attack on her.

"Is this the rush?"

Scout saw Ryze retaliate and a smug, confident smile crept across his face.

In his opinion, Ryze fighting back in front of the red team's minions at this moment was simply courting death.

Even if he gets hit twice, the damage from the minions will reduce Ryze's health, so he will definitely come out ahead.

Abu and the factory manager, who were watching from the sidelines, also shook their heads in disappointment.

"This young man is too hasty. That's not how a mage plays against an assassin in lane."

But what happened next plunged the entire audience into a deathly silence.

The instant Ryze made his basic attack, his body suddenly pulled back to the side in an extremely slight motion. The transition was incredibly fast, and it looked like the model was experiencing a slight twitch.

The three red mage minions, who had already raised their staffs to attack Ryze, froze in mid-air, as if they had lost their target.

Then, as if nothing had happened, he turned around and started attacking the blue team's minions.

"How is this possible?"

Abu pushed up his glasses and leaned forward unconsciously.

"Is the soldier stuck?"

"He's stirring up hatred among the lower-ranking soldiers."

The factory manager's eyes were filled with shock.

"Simply put, his basic attack was timed to coincide with the interval between the minion's two attacks, completing the attack within a fraction of a second of the minion's target selection period."

"From the minion's perspective, it couldn't detect Ryze's hostile status for that instant, and the attack detection failed!"

"You need to keep an eye on the minion's movement while maintaining the range of LeBlanc's auto-attacks and attacks, and then control your own hero to reach the appropriate position."

"I understand this operation, but it's very difficult to do; it requires too much precision!"

This tactic still frequently appears in high-elo casual League of Legends games a few years later.

But in S7, she was too supermodel!

In Scout's eyes, this laning phase was practically a supernatural event:

He targeted Ryze, and the blue minions helped Ryze target themselves, while Ryze targeted him several times, but his own red minions remained unmoved.

He's an undercover agent!

Meanwhile, the battles in the jungle have reached a fever pitch.

Lin Xiu's Lee Sin didn't start with his own red buff as usual. Instead, he made an extremely bold decision at the start of the game by taking advantage of his understanding of Ai Luoli's jungle farming habits: counter-jungling.

While Ai Luoli was enthusiastically waving her claws in the red zone, Lin Xiu's Lee Sin had already silently sneaked into Ai Luoli's red zone.

At this moment, the Lee Sin was calmly maneuvering to take down the red team's red buff.

"Brother Li, keep pushing mid lane. I stole the enemy jungler's red buff; he's too busy to deal with you."

Lin Xiu's voice was steady, and his fingers moved extremely fast.

Just as Ai Luoli accepted the blue buff and the toad and moved on to the red zone, Lin Xiu had already accepted the red buff.

"Am I famous?!"

When the level 2 Kha'Zix walked to the red buff pit, he was completely stunned.

Looking at the empty red buff pit, Ai Luoli's anger flared.

"The Lee Sin should be attacking the blue buff!"

He immediately chose to switch jungle camps, and while Lee Sin was attacking the blue buff, he turned around and rushed towards the substitute team's red buff area.

Even though he's already lost the time spent running back and forth, once Lee Sin finishes clearing his own top side of the map, he'll have more than half the experience needed to reach level three.

After stealing the blue buff, you'll be level 3. If you then steal another jungle camp, you won't lose out.

This is a jungler's professional instinct after losing jungle camps.

I'm not at a loss; I must get it back.

But he didn't know that Lin Xiu had already anticipated his prediction.

Lin Xiu not only stole the red buff, but also abandoned his own blue buff. Utilizing Lee Sin's high mobility, he went directly to his own red buff area and took the F6 and red buff.

When Ai Luoli's level 2 Kha'Zix, which had cleared two jungle camps, circled most of the map and arrived at the substitute team's red buff area,

He was greeted by a blind monk who had already reached level three.

"ha!"

Lee Sin landed a Sonic Wave at close range, then activated W and E, chasing down Kha'Zix and unleashing a barrage of auto-attacks.

The Kha'Zix, who hadn't learned the E skill, couldn't escape and had to fight and retreat.

But he was worried that after flashing, he would be followed up and killed by Lee Sin's Echo Slash, so he finally fell by the wall of the Dragon Pit.

"First Blood!"

Ai Luoli was completely devastated. He glanced at the time and then at his level.

Three minutes passed, and he still only had level two.

Meanwhile, the opposing Lee Sin had already secured two red buffs and first blood. Once he cleared the remaining jungle monsters, he would reach level four.

Three buffs at the start!

"Kobayashi is great!"

"Loli, be serious, don't hold back!"

In the voice chat of EDG's main players, everyone's attention was focused on their own lanes, and they didn't pay attention to Ai Luoli's movements in the first three minutes.

There wasn't much reaction to the first blood.

I just assumed that Ai Luoli was a little careless and went easy on me.

I also feel a bit sorry for Lin Xiu, that little brother, finally turning his life around.

But the factory manager and Abu, who witnessed the whole thing, were somewhat shocked.

"Kobayashi, you're making a fool of Ai Lolita like a monkey."

The factory manager couldn't help but comment.

Ai Luoli's strategy of sacrificing damage by swapping jungle camps is the standard answer for professional players.

But Lin Xiu had precisely calculated this standard answer.

And they delivered a perfect solution to this problem.

"The Kha'Zix is ​​probably going to disconnect this game."

Abu nodded.

Back to the middle lane.

Scout looked at his own health, which was only about a third of what it used to be, and then at the enemy Ryze who was still above half health. A nameless rage shot straight to the top of his head.

He desperately wanted to prove himself and defend his position as the core mid-laner in front of Abu.

Watching Ryze leisurely last-hitting minions, Scout made a tough decision:

Even if I have to replace you, I'll still bring you back down to earth!

The demon's figure instantly blurred as she activated her W skill, Shadow Clone!

Scout chose a spot some distance from Ryze where he landed his Shadow Stalker.

This allows him to take advantage of LeBlanc's Q having a longer attack range than Ryze's Q.

After hitting Ryze with QE first, pull him back to deal high damage from the passive Mark of Malice.

At that point, the low-health Ryze will have to return to base, and the health he lost at level one will be restored.

However, just as the Demoness's body blurred into afterimages and entered the attack range of the Shattered Orb,

Lee Sang-hyeok's eyes suddenly turned cold, and the instant LeBlanc landed, Ryze flashed forward.

"Buzz!"

A dark blue runic chain formed in mid-air.

Rune Imprisonment!

Scout's pupils dilated instantly: "You dare to use Flash?!"

Lee Sang-hyeok gave him no time to be surprised.

WEQ.

Ryze swung his staff, quickly applying his E skill, Spell Surge, followed by triggering his passive Q skill, Overload.

"Bang!"

The immense magical energy exploded on the slender body of the demones, taking away her last bit of health.

Lee Sang-hyeok looked at the corpse of LeBlanc, then expressionlessly manipulated Ryze to turn around and finish off a melee minion, as if nothing had happened.

The training room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Abu turned to look at the factory manager, his tone filled with disbelief:

"Mingkai, this kid's resume says he's never played professionally, just a top-ranked solo queue player in the Korean server?"

The factory manager remained silent for a long time. He knew very well that the previous move had showcased Lee Sang-hyeok's strength to the fullest.

During the laning phase, he first disrupted Scout's composure through numerous subtle skirmishes.

Then, using their extremely fast reaction speed and precise damage calculation ability, they destroy their opponents.

He stared intently at the ID "Faker" on the screen, belonging to Lee Sang-hyeok, and slowly uttered a sentence:

"If this kind of dominance is called being a 'street king,' then the mid laners in our LPL are probably just considered 'street slickers.'"