A Broken Mirror Reunited In An E-Sports Ch 55

The more aggressive the lineup, the more you need to balance vision and tactical margin of error.

Due to their fast movement, high likelihood of exposing vision, and quick rotations, the enemy may infiltrate and split the jungle and mid lane.

Usually, teams conduct wide-ranging vision control before deciding their actions, but the scope of vision control is always limited. This involves strategic positioning, formation, and consideration of flanking points.

In the ever-changing battlefield, a few seconds can directly determine the outcome of team fights. Therefore, intense team fights test the players’ personal intuition and rational response.

Creating false vision is often most effective in the late stages of intense team fights because players don’t have much energy to consider whether a split-second decision to retreat might be a trap.

This is also VIT’s specialized training direction.

Everyone must be able to do it. Even in moments when everyone relies on intuition, they should be able to make counter-intuitive strategies and decisions.

“The only way to defeat us is by relying on the advantage of team composition and completely disregarding vision, opting for a full-on assault.”

Yi Qie glanced at the data on the screen, and in an instant, Lang Bai’s economy increased by 143. He casually said, “Can you handle D’s Thunderbird?”

“No way.”

Hui Mao glanced at Ci She, who was engaged in an intense laning phase, and said, “Yin and I can go harass a bit.”

“Go.”

Xiao Yin moved instantly from the middle to the lower river, taking Hui Mao along for a pincer attack.

Xiao Yin created false vision in the top lane, while Hui Mao appeared in the bottom lane a second ago.

Lang Bai had no vision in this situation and completely let his guard down. He didn’t even enter the brush and was blatantly jungling outside.

Xiao Yin appeared first, and Lang Bai reacted quickly, retreating towards the bottom lane with the intention of joining Yao Cao for a counter-attack. Hui Mao flashed and directly hammered them at the junction, stunning both of them onto the Abyssal Rift floor.

Once Mother Earth’s control lands, as long as it catches one person, it’s almost guaranteed that she can remove her hands from the keyboard. Xiao Yin walked over and collected the double kill.

Yi Qie whistled.

“A fat wave.”

Xiao Yin searched the jungle, calmly saying, “The team’s guidance was good, Yi.”

Only Ci She was still confused, “How does the captain know where the enemy jungler is? He hasn’t even shown himself, and you two are clearly miles apart.”

“Your captain is good at math.”

Xiao Yin said calmly through the microphone, “I’ll teach you tomorrow. You need to learn.”

Ci She felt that Xiao Yin was mocking him.

“I’ll learn! How can I not master such a clever move!”

In fact, even the audience’s perspective became confused.

Even the commentators couldn’t fully grasp it—VIT’s recent surround was beyond their comprehension.

Lion said, “Hmm, this wave… Lang Bai was slightly careless. Playing Thunderbird without entering the brush, he was discovered and couldn’t retreat in time. VIT seized the opportunity.”

Commentator Bing Bing was more direct and exclaimed, “How is this possible, how is this possible! VIT doesn’t have Lang Bai’s vision information at all! Are they gambling? Lang Bai’s perspective is just inviting disaster—”

Audience members in the live stream were also frantically questioning.

[“Oh my god, wait for in-game voice communication, what’s the difference between VIT and full map vision?”]

[“They’re too amazing! How can they defend against that? Who’s commanding their team? Yin?”]

[“VIT’s mid laner is commanding! Bot lane has priority picks! The main shot-caller is Easy!”]

[“Easy is so strong, is it because of the veteran players? They must be particularly familiar with their playstyle and operations.”] Some people began to speculate.

Gradually, e-sports viewers began to comprehend.

“VIT has employed this type of vision-oriented strategy more than once! Not just against RS, they have been successful all the way with this style. They’re amazing!”

“It can’t be a gamble, right? Their luck is too good.”

“They probably just guessed right.” Lion, the commentator, didn’t fully understand either. He said, “Professional players have this kind of predictive ability, like predicting where the opponents might be in a few positions. If they guess correctly, they succeed in one move; otherwise, it becomes a waste of time.”

However, just one second after he finished speaking…

Yi Qie, who had been hiding under the tower to prevent ganks, took the initiative to strike.

Yi Qie headed towards the enemy’s red area and directly discovered Nengli, who had vision control in the jungle.

From a god’s-eye view, his move was extremely dangerous—RS’s top laner was crouching in the nearby brush, about to flank from the rear.

But at the same time, Xiao Yin joined the fray, precisely passing by Qing Yan, who was crouching in the front grass, and followed Yi Qie to launch an attack on Nengli.

With Xiao Yin and Yi Qie’s setup, the top laner had no chance to play a reactive role, especially since Wu Dao Gu was patrolling the river, ready to provide support at any time.

Lang Bai hadn’t respawned yet.

If Light Words had engaged in that situation, it would have turned into a 3v2 situation, so he didn’t rashly follow.

In the mid lane, Polar Fighter was the optimal pick, with a fragile body and a frost slowing effect.

He used up his flash, but Rong Yi accurately predicted the direction of the flash with a hook, pulling Light Words back and allowing Xiao Yin to kill him.

Afterward, Rong Yi didn’t retreat but instead created a false vision in the middle lane and took a detour to enter the top lane river!

At this moment, Light Words felt something was wrong and was retreating. Just after Xiao Yin killed Polar Fighter, he would likely check the vision in the top lane. Light Words was about to retreat back to the tower when he saw a Silver Hook flying from an unknown location.

Rong Yi flashed into the brush where Light Words had just been lurking, dragging Light Words, who had just retreated, in front of Xiao Yin.

Xiao Yin didn’t hold back and directly took the kill.

Wu Dao Gu arrived but didn’t even get an assist. He sighed, “How tragic.”

“So tragic, he was hiding and got exposed!”

“Rescued but then beaten down! If Easy’s Silver Hook catches you, there’s no way to escape!”

The audience was discussing animatedly and becoming excited.

If catching Lang Bai earlier was a coincidence, then catching Light Words now was a pure prediction without vision!

Lang Bai was caught while jungling, but Light Words had only been lurking for two to three seconds.

Lion, the commentator, started to sweat a little as he began to explain, “This… After VIT secured the mid lane, Xiao Yin went to the river to check the vision, but Easy flashed in first and controlled him, as if he knew someone was there. Of course, that brush is always checked, it’s a standard brush.”

Some viewers started to grow impatient.

[“Is the commentator biased? Can’t we have a different perspective? Look at Easy’s highlights!”]

[“Does the commentator have some grudge against Easy? I’m just asking politely. Can’t these situations be explained by prediction and gambling? Isn’t it about the team’s actual strength?”]

[“Exactly, and every time Easy moves, Yin immediately follows. Such amazing plays are being understated by you.”]

With two successful catches, the team that was supposed to catch others was now being caught. RS had no chance of turning the tide in this match.

Moreover, because Rong Yi attracted most of the attention in the early game, Xiao Yin and Ci She were able to farm comfortably. They pushed the bottom lane, and Xiao Yin roamed around in front of the enemy, controlling the vision, completely reversing the game’s momentum. RS entered a defensive mode.

A lineup with crowd control, high burst damage, and strong engage always has weaknesses in terms of squishy champions and low self-peel, making it difficult to defend.

Not to mention the enemy support is Xiao Yin.

To put it positively, they rose from the dead.

To put it negatively, even immortals can’t save their teammates from dying.

Rong Yi’s Silver Hook combined with Hui Mao’s Mother Earth’s Control rendered opponents helpless. Wu Dao Gu was the team’s only defense and willingly took on the majority of the damage.

Wu Dao Gu grumbled, “Damn it, I can’t even move under the control.”

Hui Mao glanced at the opponent she had smashed with her hammer and then got hooked by Rong Yi’s Spear.

Hui Mao said, “I think the opponents also wanted to say this.”

The scene of sieging the crystal turned into a hilarious situation where both sides were controlling each other. One side couldn’t move, and the other side couldn’t move either. However, the Key of Memories had limited effectiveness in defending, as it couldn’t prevent the team from losing members.

RS lost the crystal to VIT. The first game was a failure.

The players took off their headphones.

Rong Yi also took off his headphones and let out a gentle sigh while sitting in his seat. Then he stretched his muscles and massaged his temples.

There is indeed a difference between the mental state during training and during a match. The concentration required in a match is so high that it’s a bit overwhelming for him.

Ci She went to quickly pour water, and Wu Dao Gu went backstage to find some snacks to eat. In the training room, only Xiao Yin, Hui Mao, and Rong Yi remained.

“But how did the captain know the opponents’ positions?” Hui Mao asked eagerly while eating the small bread in front of him, “Those plays were too extreme, and I didn’t predict them either.”

“Look at the economy; each jungle monster distributes different amounts of gold, and the economy from solo farming and duo farming is also different.”

Rong Yi said, “Lei Zhen’s jungle monsters have three stages: 72, 143, and 200.”

“D, level twelve. It takes six seconds to kill this monster.”

“He’s at a certain location, and I can tell just by looking at the scoreboard.”

“As for whether we are on his side or he is on ours, and whether we are taking the monster’s gold or killing minions for gold, it depends on the specific situation and combining it with experience.”

Hui Mao showed a shocked expression, “Are there really people who read the scoreboard like that?”

He couldn’t contain himself and blurted out his thoughts.

The method that Rong Yi used is not unknown in the professional circle. Everyone has heard about it and can also apply it.

For example, at the beginning of the game, based on the enemy jungler and mid laner’s economy, you can directly determine if they are solo taking the blue buff, farming together in lane, or setting up an ambush.

However, this method is usually only used at the start of the game and may not always be effective. The game is ever-changing, and there aren’t enough eyes to constantly monitor the fluctuating gold count in real-time.

Noticing such details in the middle of a match is truly unbelievable. It means that the shot-caller must focus on their own team while continuously keeping an eye on the real-time changes of the five opponents and make calculations on the fly.

At the same time, they must also pay attention to the time it takes for the gold to increase.

Facing Hui Mao’s astonishment, Rong Yi chuckled, “We’re still working on coordination in our training. Your training plan hasn’t reached that level yet.”

“Every patch needs to be memorized.”

“In this patch, the attack power of each hero at every level, the time it takes for jungling and farming minions.”

“The effect of each item after adding it to the jungle and farming, defense stats.”

“The combined effects of multiple items, attack speed, jungle clear speed, movement speed.”

“In my team, I expect everyone to memorize all of this.”

“It’s okay if they don’t memorize, but the prerequisite for not memorizing is being able to roughly calculate it in real-time like Yin and me.”

“Or playing each hero for at least 30,000 games and using your experience and intuition in this patch to win.”

Rong Yi shrugged, “That’s how it is. But during RS, many people didn’t memorize.”

“They didn’t memorize because they believed nobody could do it,” Rong Yi said. “But being meticulous to the point of every second of gold income is the limit we can pursue in the realm of competition.”

“They forgot that I have always been able to do it.”

Xiao Yin nodded, “Everyone in VIT can do it as well.”

During halftime, an additional interview segment needed to be recorded.

Because there were adjustments to the entrance ceremony today, the pre-match conversation segment was moved to halftime.

“Captain, your voice is pleasant to listen to, so Captain, please go ahead.” Everyone had grown accustomed to pushing this task to Rong Yi—the others speaking would likely be killed directly by angry fans.

Only Rong Yi still had some sense of propriety.

The host also played along and asked.

“Captain, many people now say that to defeat VIT, you just need to catch Xiao Yin. This includes our commentator Lion and some comments from fans on the forums. What are your thoughts on this?”

“I also heard Lion’s comment.”

Rong Yi directly named him, his voice calm and steady.

“He said—there’s nothing special about it, right? Just catch Xiao Yin to defeat VIT?”

“Indeed, there’s nothing special about catching Xiao Yin. Then when RVG caught him previously, weren’t they also completely shut down by us?”