Chapter 145: Madness Unleashed! Slash! Slash! Slash!
Both coaches came to the center of the stage and shook hands.
Kkoma looked at Kuaisu Xing with a very complicated expression; he didn’t know what this guy had come up with this time…
Mid laner Master Yi then took Smite, and the original jungler Clearlove picked Taric. So what exactly are they planning?
His own dive system is still very strong; it’s just a bit unclear what the opponent’s system is.
But seeing Kuaisu Xing’s face full of smiles, even slightly raising his eyebrow at him, as if to say: “Didn’t expect that, did you?”
The more he looked, the less confident he felt.
Suddenly, he felt something was off, but he still barely squeezed out a smile. After all, the match isn’t over yet—what’s there to laugh about now?
He then immediately turned around and strode toward the backstage lounge without looking back.
He needed to hurry to the backstage lounge and have a good talk with the assistant about what exactly EDG is up to…
After all, it’s a bo5 match; if they can’t figure out the later games, what then?
This is a very troublesome matter.
At level 1, both sides’ lineup means EDG is still very strong in team fights, mainly because they have Master Yi, Taric, Lulu, and Nautilus—these four heroes are all very strong in level 1 team fights.
SKT naturally can only fully defend to avoid a level 1 team fight.
Actually, EDG isn’t planning to cause trouble here either; the reason is simple—the Master Yi and Taric combo is extremely cheesy!
Mid lane minion wave plus jungle economy, surpassing the timeline in development… combined with Taric’s E skill that hits 100% of the time, then it’s Master Yi in ultimate skill berserk mode holding his sword and slashing down a whole street!
Even crazier than Olaf.
SKT’s lineup this game has zero crowd control; the support doesn’t even need to pick Morgana. One Lulu ultimate skill ensures they won’t get burst down, and they can wait for Taric’s ultimate skill to land.
Fault tolerance maxed out…
In this situation, there’s no need to fight at level 1.
At this time, Li Fan also bought the jungler knife… while Taric went out with Relic Shield salary items.
“Jungler knife is out, so this means they’re really having Unreal jungle, and Clearlove’s Taric… with salary items going mid lane?”
From the god’s view, everyone can only see this for now.
“EDG’s black technology pulled out in the first game of the finals—looking forward to it showing results during the match!”
The camera cuts to SKT’s player bench; Faker’s expression is indeed very complicated.
He looked at the Taric standing far behind the minion wave watching him, and it gave him a headache.
He had studied Li Fan’s laning habits and champion pool for a long time yesterday, envisioning all kinds of mid lane clashes.
But the one thing he hadn’t considered was facing a Taric knight in the first game of the match who had no intention of fighting him and just wanted to farm.
Once he tried to step forward to poke with auto attacks and skills, Taric immediately retreated, not giving any opportunity.
As for minion economy, he didn’t take it at all—just hanging around mid lane.
“This… Faker has nowhere to go.” At the LCK commentator desk, CT’s tone carried helplessness. “Taric doesn’t look like he’s here to lane at all; is he just in mid lane watching LeBlanc last hit?”
“Indeed… Clearlove’s starting items have salary items, so he wasn’t thinking about laning issues. EDG really prepared this routine well; SKT needs to stay vigilant and slowly figure it out.” The Roaring Emperor still had his SKT top filter on and didn’t believe SKT couldn’t solve these problems.
Li Fan, with top laner Mouse’s help, started red buff, quickly farming stone beetles without using Smite.
Master Yi’s jungle clear speed is already very impressive; after clearing all the upper jungle camps, it was just past two and a half minutes!
This was the moment everyone was watching for: Master Yi emerged from the jungle and headed straight for mid lane…
At this time, the third wave of mid lane minions arrived.
Faker saw Master Yi and could only control LeBlanc to retreat.
Mainly because Taric has E skill, combined with Master Yi’s Q skill, it’s basically guaranteed.
LeBlanc’s passive no longer has Mirror Flower Water Moon.
If stuck by a red buff Master Yi, it’s very dangerous.
Peanut didn’t know what EDG was planning either; after clearing three jungle camps, he also rushed toward mid lane.
But EDG’s mid-jungle duo had no intentions toward LeBlanc at all. With Taric’s Relic Shield, Master Yi Alpha Strike—the two quickly cleared the minion wave.
The mid lane red side cannon minion wave pushed toward the Great Demon King; Taric and Master Yi entered the lower blue zone together.
“I get it!” Wa Wa suddenly reacted. “This is EDG’s routine! Taric acts as a mobile ward in mid lane; his existence is just to guard the mid tower and gather the minion wave. Master Yi uses Smite jungler knife’s clear efficiency and experience gain to farm jungle wildly, and periodically comes to mid lane to collect the wave, eating a whole wave’s economy and experience!”
“Even if Taric’s economy and level are very poor, his role is that ultimate skill. As long as he levels up with some CDR gear, he can ult in team fights to protect Master Yi, and his job is done!”
The audience in the live stream room listened and found it more and more reasonable.
So what would Master Yi slashing look like…?
But this scene didn’t keep everyone waiting long.
Li Fan returned to the upper jungle to eat the respawned stone beetles and F6; in less than five minutes, he reached level 6!
At this time, he had 1900 gold when going back!
He directly updated to Red Smite and Boots of Speed, immediately rushing toward mid lane.
The audience watching this on the economy panel couldn’t help but gasp.
“Too exaggerated—at this time point, Master Yi is level 6 with Red Smite and Boots of Speed! Unreal’s development is terrifying!”
First continue sweeping the jungle, eat the lower three wolves, then go back for red before returning to lane.
Faker saw Master Yi’s level and felt huge mental pressure, involuntarily retreating a bit.
There was still bodyguard Peanut behind; he didn’t believe EDG would be this arrogant.
When Li Fan’s Master Yi pushed the mid lane minion wave under the tower, everyone thought he just wanted to quickly farm jungle or pressure sidelanes.
However, the next second’s scene plunged the entire Olympic Stadium into madness!
Master Yi flashed with red light and activated his ultimate skill Highlander!
At this moment, reason zeroed out; his eyes only had LeBlanc under the turret.
“What is he doing?!” Wa Wa’s exclamation burst out.
Under everyone’s incredulous gazes, Master Yi directly dove into SKT’s Mid Lane Tower 1, auto attacking the tower to stack passive, then straight for the nearly full health Faker LeBlanc!
“Tower dive! He’s diving Faker’s tower at just over five minutes!!”
Faker’s pupils shrank; he hadn’t expected the opponent to be this crazy either!
But his reaction was extremely fast; the instant Master Yi closed in, he immediately pressed W skill W active to dash backward!
But almost at the same time as LeBlanc’s W dash, Li Fan’s Master Yi synchronously pressed Q skill Alpha Strike!
His figure turned into untargetable sword light, closely following LeBlanc’s trajectory and passing through, precisely catching up to LeBlanc’s dash landing spot!
And at this moment, Taric’s E skill also fell!
Directly stunning LeBlanc.
This is the perverted part of the Master Yi and Taric combo; Taric’s W skill won’t be broken by Master Yi’s Q skill.
Unlike Orianna’s Magic Orb, which auto-returns if distance is pulled.
In this situation, due to Master Yi Q’s ruling characteristics, before Q lands, Master Yi is default distance 0 from the enemy hero, so Taric’s E is hard to dodge—basically guaranteed hit!
Dealing damage plus 1.5 seconds of stun—this moment is fatal.
Auto attack! Activate E skill Meditate, true damage and Red Smite simultaneously applied!
Master Yi with Red Smite and Boots of Speed slashing on the mere level 5 LeBlanc—the damage was ridiculously high!
LeBlanc’s health bar visibly dropped a huge chunk!
“Damage is so high!” Faker’s heart chilled as he immediately pressed W skill to return to the origin.
But Master Yi’s super high movement speed chased up again.
Good thing Olaf arrived at this time…
One axe thrown had no effect.
But relying on the turret, it did pressure Master Yi’s health low.
But both sides’ health drop speeds weren’t even close…
Forced with no choice, he could only Flash to Olaf’s side.
Li Fan Flashed to follow, two more slashes taking down the low health LeBlanc.
Olaf slashed Master Yi at this time…
“EDG Unreal killed SKT Faker!”
“SKT Peanut killed EDG Unreal!”
System announcements rang out one after another; both mid-junglers traded 1 for 1!
The on-site audience watching this scene was extremely shocked.
Good grief, it was their first time seeing the game played like this—directly rushing the tower ignoring everything for a tower dive kill!
After a brief silence, even more frenzied cheers erupted!
“1 for 1! But… this is a hugely profitable 1 for 1!” Wa Wa analyzed excitedly. “Unreal got First Blood, and with this huge cannon minion wave into the tower, Faker’s LeBlanc is screwed—he not only gave up First Blood but also loses two full waves of experience and economy!”
Miller immediately followed: “Exactly, more importantly the momentum—even a 1 for 1, I’m profiting! This playstyle boosts morale too much!”
【Holy shit! Mad dog! Pure mad dog!】
【Ultimate on, IQ zero.】
【Rather 1 for 1 just to kill you! Aren’t you scared?!】
【Faker is dumbfounded; who plays the game like this?】
【This wave of minions blew up Faker; looks like it really has something.】
【Master Yi got First Blood, this gear is even stronger—where did he steal so much gold? Recurve Bow already?】
Farmed two jungle waves, plus the huge mid lane wave, and the previous 100+ gold, plus First Blood economy—just enough.
So the current gear is scalp-numbingly scary.
Early game, Master Yi trading kills with the opponent is never a loss.
EDG player bench.
“You’re really playing mad dog, holy shit—so reckless!”
“Just testing the knife; early respawn time isn’t long—farm a bit more, wait for your ultimate, and I won’t die.”
In the next few minutes, Summoner’s Rift fully entered Master Yi’s farm time.
His movement pattern became extremely regular: clear one jungle area, return to mid for a minion wave, head to the other jungle area.
Clearlove’s Taric always guarded mid lane, doing his best to freeze the minion wave; if he couldn’t, it didn’t matter—he could take a little, no big impact.
Because Master Yi’s jungle speed was fast; he could basically get more than half.
After all, Taric needed levels too.
Under this near-plundering development, Li Fan’s Master Yi’s last hits and level rose at an astonishing speed.
At seven and a half minutes, when another mid lane wave was cleared by Master Yi’s Alpha Strike, an upgrade glow lit up on him—level 8!
“Level 8! Seven-minute level 8 Master Yi!” Miller’s voice was full of shock. “Highest level in the game! Nearly two levels ahead of the enemy mid LeBlanc! This development speed is terrifying…”
And Taric finally shared enough experience this wave, successfully reaching level 6!
“Taric level 6 too! Taric’s ultimate skill Cosmic Radiance is ready!” Wa Wa’s voice suddenly rose. “What does this mean? It means this Master Yi not only has explosive damage next, but also 2.5 seconds of invincibility!”
Everyone understood from the previous tower dive kill—if there was Taric ult invincibility, LeBlanc couldn’t have traded with Master Yi…
So everyone knew the next part was SKT’s most painful moment!
At SKT’s side, the atmosphere was already extremely heavy.
Faker watched Master Yi clear the wave and disappear mid with Taric, his brows furrowing.
In the past few minutes, the image of Master Yi ulting like a mad dog diving towers had left him with psychological trauma.
But now with Taric at level 6, it was even harder to deal with.
“Enemy mid-jungle no longer in mid lane; everyone be careful.” Faker reminded his teammates in voice chat.
Hearing Faker’s reminder, SKT’s bot duo reacted quickly.
Caitlyn and Karma immediately retreated all the way to in front of tower 1.
“SKT bot so alert! Directly giving up a whole minion wave! Is this the discipline of a top team?” Wa Wa exclaimed.
“No choice; they know full well a level 8 Master Yi with Taric ult diving their bot tower is like drinking water. Eating these minions might mean death, and dying would blow them up.”
At the same time, after Faker’s LeBlanc quickly cleared the front minion wave mid with skills, he didn’t continue to farm but immediately moved cautiously toward bot lane.
“Faker heading bot too! He’s protecting his bot lane! Though he might lose some minions, but…” Su Xiao Yan was very excited now.
Because from god’s view, Master Yi and Taric were heading top!
“EDG’s goal is top lane! They exploited SKT’s thinking inertia! SKT thought they’d gank bot, but they went top instead!”
At the LCK commentator desk, CT and the Roaring Emperor already felt something was wrong.
“Pizza! Huni is already under the turret, but enemy is 3v1 on him… gotta run quick!”
But at this moment, Master Yi and Taric didn’t even wait for the minion wave; they came from behind, Master Yi ulted and rushed toward Rumble under the turret.
Alpha Strike!
Taric’s E skill followed, stunning Rumble in place, then activating mad slash down the street mode again.
Refreshed a second Alpha Strike, directly taking Rumble.
For heroes without control, facing Master Yi is truly helpless! Helplessness surged in his heart.
The turret lost target and shifted aggro to Taric.
This way, Master Yi easily escaped the turret’s attack range.
“EDG Unreal killed SKT Huni!”
Easy, comfortable.
“Killed! Rumble ganked and killed; EDG’s feint to bot was beautiful!” Wa Wa punched the air. “SKT put all defense focus bot, but EDG faked it…”
“And look at Master Yi’s damage! Rumble couldn’t withstand it! Master Yi’s power is starting to show!” Miller added.
After killing Rumble, EDG top-mid-jungle trio directly took Rift Herald.
SKT, to stop the bleeding, could only take bot lane’s little dragon.
EDG’s bot duo had long followed the half-zone principle and rotated away.
On this return trip, Li Fan directly bought Guinsoo’s Rageblade.
The current patch’s Guinsoo’s Rageblade is buffed; fully stacked gives 73% attack speed, and every three auto attacks triggers an extra one—this with Master Yi passive multiplies geometrically.
Overall, stacking speed is very fast, and damage explodes accordingly!
When Li Fan’s Master Yi updated to Guinsoo’s Rageblade and approached bot with Taric, SKT smelled it.
They knew this was their last chance…
They had to restrict this Master Yi, or he’d develop freely with no pressure, and with their lineup having zero control, they couldn’t handle it.
In an instant, Summoner’s Rift was filled with tension!
Bot lane pings went crazy.
Huni’s Rumble directly Teleported down, landing behind tower 2!
Faker’s LeBlanc and Peanut’s Olaf rapidly arrived from jungle!
On EDG’s side, top Nautilus’s Teleport lit up too! Mid-jungle already in position, bot duo ready!
Ten heroes instantly gathered bot lane!
A 5v5 frontal team fight erupted just over ten minutes into the match!
Golden light flashed; Master Yi activated ultimate skill, target straight for Caitlyn!
Bang reacted extremely fast, E skill 90 Caliber Rope Net backward dash plus Heal speed boost!
But for Master Yi, it had no effect…
Alpha Strike!
Sword light flickered, instantly closing in!
Taric E skill stunned Caitlyn!
Master Yi with Guinsoo’s Rageblade passive, every slash cutting deep! Caitlyn’s health bar visibly evaporated wildly!
“Save me!!”
All of SKT’s skills poured onto Master Yi!
LeBlanc’s Phantom Chain, Olaf’s Undertow, Rumble’s Harpoon and Flame…
But at this moment!
“Quickly grow big!”
Lulu timely ulted Wild Growth!
Master Yi’s size exploded, health suddenly boosted a chunk, and knocked up surrounding SKT players!
Auto attack! Another auto! Double Strike!
“EDG Unreal killed SKT Bang!”
Caitlyn melted instantly!
“Melted! Caitlyn melted! My god!!”
Auto refresh skill, Alpha Strike lit up again!
Master Yi instantly locked nearby Karma!
Wolf scared soul flying immediately Flashed back.
But high-speed Master Yi quickly followed; Q skill through, landed two slashes, Karma fell!
“Double Kill!”
“Double Kill!”
Double Kill!
“Double Kill! Unreal is killing crazily! Unreal is killing crazily!” Wa Wa’s voice hoarse.
SKT’s remaining three saw the momentum bad and wanted to retreat.
But Master Yi rushed straight under their turret, completely ignoring it.
Alpha Strike Rumble!
Taric’s ultimate skill fell at this moment, a beam of stellar power enveloping Master Yi—2.5 seconds invincible!
“Taric ulted! Invincible! Can continue chasing, continue killing.” Su Xiao Yan screamed.
Huni’s regret surged; he shouldn’t have Teleported down!
But now, it was too late!
Invincible Master Yi fully transformed into Grim Reaper! He ignored all SKT damage, and with no control from SKT, Li Fan’s eyes only had slaughter, no extra thoughts.
Auto! Auto! Alpha Strike refresh! More autos!
Rumble like paper, instantly chopped down!
“Triple Kill!”
Triple Kill!
The whole audience stood up!
Next was LeBlanc trying to W dash away!
Master Yi like maggot on bone, ultimate speed still on!
Caught up! Slash after slash on LeBlanc’s fragile body!
Faker operated desperately, but all futile!
“Quadra Kill!”
Quadra Kill!
“Quadra! Is there Penta!! Where’s Olaf!” Wa Wa’s voice had shouted past its limit.
Olaf desperately fled toward tower 2.
But Highlander Master Yi’s move speed wasn’t something Olaf could match!
After all, Li Fan had Boots of Speed long ago.
Caught up, QWA mad slashes!
Double Strike passive triggered, Guinsoo’s Rageblade passive followed!
Alpha Strike finisher…
“Penta Kill!!!”
Penta Kill!!!
Shocking system announcement echoed through Summoner’s Rift and the entire Rio Olympic Stadium!
“Pizza! Total pizza!” CT stared at the big screen in a daze; he never imagined the plot unfolding like this.
“Penta Kill!!! Unreal!!! Penta!!! In MSI finals, against SKT, Unreal got Penta with Master Yi!!!!”
The entire stadium boiled over! Cheers nearly lifted the roof!
“Unreal! Unreal! Unreal!”
Chants deafening, unrelenting!
Live stream bullet comments exploded with countless “?????” and “Penta!”
【Who’s saying Master Yi can’t be used in matches?】
【Who’s calling Master Yi a kid’s hero! On the pro scene, if you play it well, you can still rampage.】
【Unreal is endorsing Master Yi; on the pro scene, play well and even Master Yi can get Penta.】
SKT player bench dead silent.
Five people stared at their black-and-white screens, at the Master Yi standing amid their corpses like a demon god descended, faces full of shock and helplessness.
Too exaggerated!
Just inexplicably such overwhelming dominance.
Faker leaned back in his chair, closing his eyes.
Starting to think where exactly this match had zero chance from the start.
Not the tower dive kill wave, nor this one.
But the opponent picking Master Yi and Taric…
Small skill synergy plus ultimate synergy—unsolvable mid-jungle duo.
When Li Fan’s Master Yi returned to base with Penta bounty, with Blade of the Ruined King and Guinsoo’s Rageblade in his equipment slot, everyone knew the match had no suspense.
“Twelve minutes, Blade of the Ruined King plus Guinsoo’s Rageblade! This Master Yi can’t be called a hero anymore; he’s a walking nuke!”
“SKT has no one who can stand in front of him for two seconds now, not even Olaf!” Wa Wa declared.
SKT’s lineup could only play early-mid game; after all, picking Caitlyn meant quick push and easy win against EDG.
So facing Master Yi, zero solutions—let alone super fed Master Yi.
EDG gave SKT no breathing room.
Successively pushed SKT’s mid and bot outer towers!
Mid high ground even smashed once by Rift Herald.
Without mid outer tower, SKT’s vision extremely compressed; they didn’t dare leave high ground half a step.
They could only watch EDG enter and exit their sensitive spots.
Economic Gap snowballed wildly, breaking 7000 in a blink!
“Economy difference 7000! Just fourteen minutes!” Su Xiao Yan looked at the data panel, feeling it unreal.
Opponent is SKT, yet 7000 economic gap at fourteen minutes!
Pushed all outer towers, at fourteen and a half minutes directly assaulting mid high ground!
“Highlander!”
Golden glow lit again; Master Yi first rushed onto SKT high ground!
“He rushed again! Master Yi solo rushed high ground! My god, he completely ignores SKT’s five!” Wa Wa exclaimed.
SKT crowd like startled birds; seeing Master Yi ult rush up, instinctively retreated.
Mainly scared from the bot wave.
But Crown-speedboosted Master Yi had clear target: Caitlyn at the very back!
Alpha Strike!
Untargetable sword light pierced straight for Caitlyn!
Landed, stunned Caitlyn again!
Unsolvable, this is unsolvable—Master Yi and Taric 100% control.
Bang didn’t even have reaction time; just Flashed out, Master Yi Flashed after and slashed him dead.
“EDG Unreal killed SKT Bang!”
Instant kill! Still instant kill!
“Melted! Melted again! Caitlyn can’t stand one second!”
Slaughter just beginning!
Refresh skill, Master Yi turned to nearby Karma!
Wolf Flashed, but meaningless!
“Double Kill!”
Double Kill!
As for EDG’s others, now rushing up to lock them down.
“Penta! Double Penta!” Li Fan now bloodthirsty, yelling in voice chat.
“All locked down, all locked! If not, we dive spring and kill!” Clearlove was hyped now; first time super super super easy—do nothing, just E skill and ult heal, W skill to Master Yi.
Rumble! Few slashes down!
“Triple Kill!”
Faker’s LeBlanc W active shuttle between high ground towers…
But locked by Nautilus ultimate, couldn’t run.
Master Yi caught up, chopping like vegetables.
“Quadra Kill!”
Quadra Kill!
Last was Olaf with ultimate skill Ragnarok, trying desperate last stand!
Peanut roared charging Master Yi, but before godlike geared Master Yi, fragile as infant.
Mortals can’t challenge gods at this stage…
Auto! Auto! Alpha Strike!
“Penta Kill!!!”
Penta Kill!!!
Another Penta Kill!!!
One match with double Penta!
“Penta Kill!!! Another Penta!!! On SKT high ground, Unreal’s Master Yi got another Penta!!!!” Wa Wa jumped up from commentator desk in excitement.
“Like demon lord from heavens, true earthly deity! This Master Yi!” Miller’s face flushed red; clearly very excited.
“Gone mad!” Su Xiao Yan perfectly followed Miller’s words.
The entire Rio Olympic Stadium plunged into total madness!
All audience, regardless of region, stood up, giving this unprecedented performance their hottest cheers and applause!
“Unreal! Unreal! Unreal!”
In front of SKT’s base crystal, five hero corpses lay scattered.
And that Master Yi holding dual swords stood quietly amid the corpses.
This scene screenshot by countless people.
“Victory!”
Match time frozen at 15:07!
“It’s over! Fifteen minutes! EDG crushed to take MSI finals game 1! Unreal got double Penta this match!” Miller’s voice trembled with excitement…
“EDG’s Master Yi and Taric combo today truly shocked the world!”
“Congrats EDG! With a perfect victory, they take first blood! Score 1:0 lead!”
