Chapter 326 - Zeng Rui Organizes his Pitch-Perfect Teamfight

Team Shanghai had the clear lead. Tang Bingyaos Draven alone was practically enough to shut down Zhejiang Universitys entire team! But that didnt make Zhejiang University any less dangerous. They had some of the most skilled players in the entire Winter Collegiate Cup on their team. So rather than pushing for a quick victory and leaving their backs open to a counterattack, Team Shanghai chose to consolidate their gains. They all returned to base to stock up on wards and started setting up vision all around the map. Then they continued with manipulating the minion waves in their favour, draining experience and gold away from Zhejiang University.

Zeng Rui had his Blitzcrank trail behind Tang Bingyaos Draven, but his attention was all over the map. He made sure that the wards were placed where he wanted them, and noted down the times at which they would disappear. When he was satisfied, he said over the teams voice chat, Alright, now we focus on scaling. BunBun is the only one who doesnt worry about that. Shell be looking for openings to abuse.

Nice! Zeng Rui rolled his shoulders back and smiled. This is my way of playing! Slow and methodical! And Ive even got the thundering dumbass doing what I ask him to! Perfect! Zhang Hao knows how to do this in the top lane, so hell do better. And Ill keep Tang Tang here in check. This is my game! I know this! And Im finally getting to show it! He panned his camera to look at An Xins Lee Sin, who was running through the top side river. And with her creating pressure, Zhejiang wont know what hits them! Just a few minutes of this to get that full item advantage, maybe more, and then we start pushing down towers! Well wait for the next Dragon. Maybe make a play around Baron Great! I love this!

An Xin had her screen showing Zhejiang Universitys top side Jungle. Zhejiangs Elise walked through the ward in the tri-brush near the top lane. She narrowed her eyes. That Elise isnt going top. So Krugs? Yeah. She knew Zhejiang University had a ward in the tri-brush, so she couldnt enter the Jungle through there. She instead had her Lee Sin run into the Baron Pit. The back wall of it connected with Red teams top side Jungle. She placed a ward on the other side and dashed at it with Safeguard!

An Xins Lee Sin was on a small path in the Jungle. The Red Buff Camp was to her right and a wall of trees and boulders to her left. Behind that wall was the Krug Camp. An Xin narrowed her eyes. She walked down the path and turned left when the wall stopped. A perfect U-turn. And on the other side, Zhejiangs Elise was fighting the Krugs! She was in spider form and her health bar was hovering at just above half health!

Too easy, An Xin mumbled. Her Lee Sin had the level advantage, he had the item advantage, and he had the better player controlling him. She pressed Q and her Lee Sin punched out a discordant soundwave that slammed into Elise! Resonating Strike! He dashed at Elise and then slammed his flat hand on the ground! Tempest! A shockwave erupted around him, sending a foreign energy into Elises body! He followed up with an auto attack and then activated the foreign energy with Cripple! It exploded and hampered Elises movement speed!

The quick damage combo from Lee Sin tore through Elises health bar! He hit her with another auto attack and she found herself with less than 15% health remaining! Her Flash was off cooldown. Zhejiang Universitys Jungler was about to activate it, but Shi Hang stopped him. Zhejiangs Jungler glanced at the former professional player, dumbstruck. My death is worth less than wasting Flash? Stupid ass Shi Hang says it. He gritted his teeth and kept his finger hovering over the D key. I should just push it. I can still get away! I, I cant. He grimaced when Lee Sin started the animation for Dragons Rage, and he closed his eyes as the powerful roundhouse kick killed him.

You have been slain!

CARRY ME LEE!WOOOOOOO!Sick skills! That Elise got obliterated!Lee gonna carry this whole game!She just knew! How did she know!? She ran straight for that Elise!MAD SKILLS! MAAAAAAD!

Silent Reed watched the crowd lose it and then glanced at Rollfire. She giggled. Hes losing it! If he gets any angrier, hes going to explode! She grabbed her microphone and screamed into it, WOOOOOOOOOOO! She then briefly paused before continuing, Who said something about Draven being the MVP? They clearly havent seen this Lee! This Lee is even fedder! DOUBLE MVP! IM CALLING FOR A DOUBLE MVP! GIRLS CARRYING TEAM SHANGHAI TO NATIONALS!

Saliva went down the wrong pipe. Rollfire lurched forward and coughed. Tears sprung in his eyes and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. He pinched his eyes closed and wiped his mouth. When he could finally talk again, a stinging pain stuck in his throat, he croaked, True. True. Lee Sin is strong. Early game. Late game, he falls off.

Maybe, Silent Reed replied, grinning. I feel soooooooo not bad for you! She turned her attention back to the large LCD screen, ready to analyse the kill on Elise in more depth, when her eyes opened wide. She shouted into her microphone, BOT LANE! BOT! ANOTHER FIGHT!

Zeng Rui noticed Sun Ruinians Tristana get more and more confident. After every next last hit, she would take a more aggressive approach, lingering dangerously close to overextension. He smiled. Yeah, just a little more to the right. Just do it! A bit more. Yeah, take that minion. Think were being scared for another gank! His finger was already resting on the Q key and he moved his mouse to where Sun Ruinians Tristana was walking to. Just a bit He pressed down on the Q key. ROCKET GRAB! His Blitzcrank lifted his arm and fired his hand at Sun Ruinians Tristana!

Sun Ruinian slammed down on the S key! His Tristana stopped walking! Blitzcranks Rocket Grab shot past her an inch from her face! Did you really think I was that stupid? He shook his head and activated Rapid Fire. His Tristanas attack speed increased and she fired at the low health Blue minions! Why did you think I was building up a big wave of Red minions? Or why I wasnt killing the low health Blue minions? I cant believe you fell for it! He glanced at Shi Hang and nodded. Shi Hang was right. I thought it was too obvious, but he said it wasnt. He was right.

Tristanas skill Explosive Charge had a passive aspect to it. It added an explosion effect to every killing blow. Every minion she killed exploded into a thousand little pieces that slammed into the allied minions and Champions around it and dealt splash damage! Sun Ruinian made full use of this to tear through all the Blue minions within seconds! There was suddenly a double Red minion wave and zero Blue minions in the middle of the bot lane! Sun Ruinian grinned and said over the teams voice chat, Jump!

SHIT! BACK! Zeng Rui shouted over the teams voice chat.

Tang Bingyao chewed on her lips. Mhm! I know! She clicked next to her outer tower. Her Draven turned around and started running away.

Zhejiang Universitys Braum dashed at the Red minion closest to Tang Bingyaos Draven with Stand Behind Me! He followed up with his ultimate skill, jumping up into the air and then slamming his shield down on the ground! A Glacial Fissure spread out before him! Freezing ice erupted from the ground and knocked Tang Bingyaos Draven up into the air!

Sun Ruinians Tristana aimed her cannon at the ground and firedRocket Jump! She arced through the sky and landed on top of Draven! She followed up with an auto attack and Explosive Charge! A cannonball slammed into Draven while a small bomb appeared above his head! The next four attacks against Draven would charge the bomb up to deal massive damage!

Tang Bingyao right clicked on Sun Ruinians Tristana. Her Draven hurled a Spinning Axe that cleaved through a good portion of Tristanas health bar before ricocheting! I can still kill them! 1vs2

Mids missing! Lin Feng exclaimed over the teams voice chat.

Tang Bingyao glanced at her minimap. Too late. Shi Hangs LeBlanc jumped into the bot lane with Distortion and followed up with Mimic: Distortion! She flicked her mouse and cast Stand Aside! It worked last time. Ill make it work again! Mhm! Her Draven raised his axes above his shoulders and threw them at an angle!

Shi Hangs LeBlanc got knocked out of her jump by Tang Bingyaos Draven! But Shi Hang knew it was coming this time. He cast Sigil of Malice while the interrupt was still active and waited with Ethereal Chains just long enough to see how far he had to flick his mouse. All the while, Sun Ruinians Tristana Rapid Fired away! And she finished off with Buster Shot. A massive cannonball slammed into Tang Bingyaos Draven and shut her down!

Shutdown!

Zeng Ruis eyes went wide. He looked at the three Champions from Zhejiang University and gritted his teeth. Dammit! I gotta He slammed down on the D key! His Blitzcrank flashed away towards the Blue teams outer tower and then went into Overdrive!

Dont chase, Shi Hang said over Zhejiang Universitys voice chat. He nodded at his Botlaners and continued, Nice work, guys. Lets take their tower next. Weve got the minions here.

LeBlanc, Tristana and Braum attacked Blue teams outer tower together with a dozen minions. They tore through the health of the structure and destroyed it in only a couple of seconds!

Blue Teams turret has been destroyed!

WOOOOOOOO!ITS THE C-C-COMEBACK!THEY HAD TO SHUT YOU DOWN!EASY WIN ZHEJIANG! GET FUCKED TEAM SHANGHAI!Holy moly! What a play!Oh my gosh! There goes their advantage!

Rollfire shot to his feet and grabbed his microphone. He moved it to his mouth, grinning brightly, and shouted, Zhejiang University with a beautiful play! If you look at their team comp a little more closely, they do seem to counter Draven pretty hard! With Braum and J-4, theyve got crowd control for days! They just need to get the engage right, like they did here! Then theres nothing Draven can do! Fed or not!

Silent Reed grimaced and nodded. Why does he have to be right? Ass! She took a deep breath and then said, Tristana got so much from that as well! It wasnt just the gold from a normal kill She also got the shutdown bonus gold as well as the gold for destroying the tower! Shes so much closer to her hyper carry potential now!

At 19 minutes, the second Dragon spawned. Zeng Rui had prepared for it over the previous few minutes. Blue wards were everywhere around the Dragon pit. They had perfect vision. They knew exactly where Zhejiang University was. And Zeng Rui used that information to predict what they were going to do next. He had his teammates position themselves according to those predictions. Lin Fengs Zed was off to the side, while the other four would meet Zhejiang University head on. Lin Feng could then jump on the backline to one shot Sun Ruinians Tristana while the rest of the team focused down Shi Hangs LeBlanc. Perfect! Were going to win this right here!

Zhejiang University charged through their bottom side Jungle as a team. They ran past the Blue Buff Camp and stormed into the river! There they engaged Team Shanghai! Shi Hangs LeBlanc jumped at them with Distortion! Jarvan IV followed up behind him with a flag-toss combo into Cataclysm! And Elise cast Cocoon! The web of silk hit Blitzcrank and rooted him!

Lin Fengs Zed was hiding in the Red bottom side Jungle in the brush connecting to the bot lane. When he saw Zhejiang Universitys team pass by, he cast Living Shadow! The shadow manifested across the Jungle wall and he then had his Zed travel the shadows to take his Living Shadows place! Tristana was right in front of him on the other side of one more Jungle wall. Death Mark! Zed disappeared and four blood red shadows appeared around Tristana! They dashed at her and placed the Death Mark on her! Right then, when Lin Feng was about to unleash his full damage combo on Tristana and take her out, Tristana flashed away and Braum targeted him with Exhaust. The debilitating energy fell over him and caused his stats to drop!

This aint great Lin Feng grimaced. He panned his camera to look how the rest of the fight was going. Tang Bingyaos got a kill on Elise But shes dead. ZengZeng is dead. Haobro BunBun might get another kill before dying He shook his head and pressed on the R key again. His Zed jumped back to where hed cast Death Mark from. Then he ran deeper into Red teams bottom side Jungle until he found a relatively safe location to cast recall from. That was a bust.

Lin Feng panned his camera to the Dragon pit. Zhejiang University didnt even try to look for him. They killed his four teammates, losing only Elise and Jarvan IV in the process, and then moved on to kill the Dragon. Were falling behind. If Tang Tang If BunBun He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. We need to play better as a team, or were going to lose this. I need to trust them. I cant do this by myself. Trust them, trust them!

Rollfire watched the audience cheer with a big grin on his face. He leaned back in his chair and took a deep, long breath. Aaaah! This is more like it! Show them whos boss, AyDeeCee! He soaked himself in the screams and shouts supporting Zhejiang University. And when they started to die down, he moved the microphone to his lips and said, Zhejiang is tipping the scale back in their favour! Like I mentioned earlier, once Zhejiang University gets into this game, they win. Its that simple. Tristana has hit her power spike and Shi Hang was a monster from the start! This is game over for Team Shanghai!

Silent Reed pursed her lips and scrunched her eyes. Please dont let it end like this! DO SOMETHING! You can do it, kids! If only to shut this ass next to me up! She breathed out all of her frustration from having to co-cast with Rollfire. Then she grabbed her microphone and said, Zhejiang is doing a lot better, true. But to say this game is over, isnt it a bit early for that? Just look at Lee Sin. Hes still strong. One good ultimate from him and weve got ourselves a Team Shanghai victory!

Rollfire turned his head to look at Silent Reed and grinned. He explained, Yeah, with the dream engage. All he needs is that perfect 5 man ultimate. The kind you almost never see. Remember how everyone lost it when God Roundy did it at Worlds? Thats the kind of ultimate youre looking for here! He shook his head and laughed. Then he continued, Lets not kid ourselves here. This Lee Sin is playing great, but shes no professional player! And she sure as hell isnt the Uncrowned Eighth! She might try to do the amazing Lee Sin play, but Ill bet that Sun Ruinians Tristana will Buster Shot her away before she can even get to the backline!

NO WAY HES RIGHT! Ouyang exclaimed. He shot to his feet and pointed up at the caster desk, shouting, FIRE THAT BIASED ASSHOLE!

Liu Yue jumped up to his feet and threw his arms in the air. He screamed, YEAH! FIRE HIM!

Yang Fang looked up at his friends and shook his head. He adjusted his glasses and said, Sit down, guys. He isnt wrong

ISNT WRONG? ISNT WRONG MY ASS! Ouyang yelled. He turned around to look at Yang Fang and shouted, WHATS WRONG WITH YOU?

Nothing wrong with me, Yang Fang calmly replied. He looked up at his friend and explained, Zhejiang has one Exhaust. They just have to save that for Zed. Lin Feng cant one shot one of their carries when hes exhausted. Now Zhejiangs only worry becomes Tang Bingyaos Draven. Between Braum, Jarvan IV and LeBlanc, they can take care of her.

What about BunBun though! Liu Yue exclaimed. He waved his arm at the large LCD screen and continued, Shes fed too! She can still carry us!

Yan Fang adjusted his glasses and grimaced. He said, Like Like Dickfire said. If she gets a World-level kind of ultimate off, well win. But chances are she wont.

Lets be real here, Wei Dong interrupted. He looked at his friends and continued, These are our friends from school. Were playing at a uni tourney. Its already great they can participate! This is such a great experience for them! They forced a former professional player to a Game 5! That enough is something to be proud of. But winning

Fuck you all and your negative asses! Ouyang exclaimed. He shook his head and shouted, I cant believe this! Were bros! Bros stand up for each other! They support each other! AND THEY NEVER FUCKING GIVE UP! GET TO YOUR FUCKING FEET AND CHEER! TEAM SHANGHAI IS GONNA WIN!

Liu Yue wrapped his hands around his mouth and shouted, TEAM SHANGHAI IS GONNA WIN! WOOT WOOT!

Zeng Rui stared at his screen. At the dull grey colours reminding him about how the fight he planned had gone wrong. His general redictions were spot on. But hed made a couple of miscalculations. I thought Braum was going to jump in together with LeBlanc! Thats such a strong combo! LeBlanc jumps and Braum follows with Stand Behind Me! But he waited for Lin Feng. He knew. Somehow. He breathed in deeply and said on the exhale, Shit.

Lin Feng scratched the back of his head and said over the teams voice chat, The Braum Exhaust is pretty annoying. I cant kill Tristana while its up.

Zhang Hao chimed in, No good in me jumping on their backline either. Theyll just slaughter Tang Tang even faster!

Tang Bingyao frowned and replied, LeBlanc deals so much damage and then theres Jarvan jumping on me every chance he gets and I also have to watch out for the Elise Cocoon! And what if Braum jumps in next time because we dont expect it? I need double flashes Triple...

Zeng Rui massaged his temples and mumbled, But dragging this game isnt going work either

So lets stop dragging it out then, An Xin said, smiling. She waited for everyone to look at her and then continued, Tristana flashed away from Zed. Jarvan IV flashed on Tang Tang. They all used all of their skills to win that teamfight! Sure, they got us. Theyre far closer to us than before. Our window is quickly closing. But its not over! Were still stronger, for a bit longer! She took a long, deep breath and concluded, Ill make the engage. You follow up on me. She then turned to Lin Feng and added, You just jump on Trist.

It was the 21st minute of the fifth game. Team Shanghai gathered together and started pushing the mid lane. Zhejiang Universitys outer tower was still at almost full health. Rollfire chuckled and said into his microphone, Oh? Looks like Team Shanghai is going for one last try. Gotta give it to them, the timing works. Draven, Zed and Lee all have their Flashes up. Zhejiang doesnt.

Silent Reed nodded and chimed in, Yep! This is Team Shanghais best opportunity! They just need to find the engage fast! This cant drag on for too much longer!

Rollfire smirked and retorted, Easier said than done. Lets see if Zhejiang University actually gives them the opportunity. And whether Team Shanghai has the skill to seize it! He paused briefly and then added, Youre right though. Team Shanghai does have a chance to win it here. But thats maybe a 1% chance. Beyond that? This is a Zhejiang University win.

In Zhejiang Universitys soundproof booth:

Sun Ruinian glanced at his teammates and said over the teams voice chat, Gather mid and play it safe. If they dive us, we win this fight. Plus its not like they have any long range skillshots. Every extra second we get, is a second closer to our win.

Shi Hang turned his head to look at Sun Ruinian and smiled. He didnt give up. He fought. And now hes back in the game. Just like I taught him! He nodded and added, If Blitz pulls any of you guys, well engage. I just need Braum to protect me. Knock Zed and Lee up if they try to dive. Lets bring this game home!

Will do! Zhejiang Universitys Support replied. He then sighed loudly and mumbled, Just a shame my Exhaust is on cooldown

Shi Hang shook his head and replied, Dont worry about that. We dont need Exhaust to beat them. All we need is the knock up. He turned his head to look back at his screen and narrowed his eyes. All we really need is for me to kill Draven before he can deal any damage. Then we can all focus on Maple. Thats going to be the real challenge here.

In Team Shanghais soundproof booth:

Zhang Hao stared at his screen and scrunched his nose. He had his Irelia stand outside of the mid outer towers range, looking for a way in. But Team Shanghai was almost entirely melee range, and even their ranged Champion Draven didnt have much in terms of range. Zhang Hao shook his head in frustration and he said over the teams voice chat, Our range is too short. We cant attack the tower! Were just losing health like this!

Zeng Rui had his Blitzcrank run back and forth, searching for an angle to cast Rocket Grab! But there were no openings, and the pressure he put on Zhejiang University wasnt enough to push them away from the tower. He grimaced and said over the teams voice chat, BunBun, this is pointless. Theyve got the range advantage. All they need to do is to keep poking us down until we have to back. And then we still need to back before they jump on us and kill us. This isnt going to work

It is going to work, An Xin replied. She narrowed her eyes and continued, Just be patient a little longer. Im going to engage. When my Q hits, be ready. She waited for the Red minions to die. There was a brief opening between the wave dying and the next one arriving. She had a clear shot on Zhejiang Universitys front line. I have to do this, now! No time to hesitate! She pushed down on the Q keySonic Wave! Her Lee Sin punched a discordant soundwave forward! It slammed into Zhejiangs Elise! An Xin smiled and shouted, Im going in!

An Xins Lee Sin dashed at Zhejiangs Elise with Resonant Strike!