Extra 4: This is Not a Game, It's Art (Free)

Ephyra, locked.
The director switched the camera to Li Luo at the right time.
Li Luo, seen through the lens, appeared relaxed and carefree, chatting and laughing with teammates.
His relaxed expression seemed more like someone who was not there to compete, but rather... to enjoy the game.
The All-Star Game is essentially an entertainment event, and there's no denying that.
However, many spectators both at the venue and in front of screens find it difficult to accept Li Luo's seemingly casual attitude.
"It seems like he's just here to have fun... I wonder if he knows how important this match is?"
"Can't believe it, this thing has just been released, and he's already using it for selection. Looks like he doesn't really want to win!"
"Arrogant and complacent just because of the three consecutive championships?"
"If they lose this time, they will be despised for a lifetime."
The clamor of netizens is endless on the Baidu Tieba forum, and in comparison to the past, these comments appear incredibly ironic and true. Note: The "@" symbol in Chinese does not have a direct equivalent in English. I have kept the "@@" as it is used in the original text.
And as the game entered the loading screen, all five players from LCK were taken aback.
Deft, in a rare occurrence, opted for a red buff start.
For him, countless days and nights of hard training were all for this moment of revenge today.
I can't believe Li Luo... actually chose a new hero.
What does this mean?
Do they look down on him?
Is this just for entertainment?
Li Luo's choice of this hero not only disappointed many domestic viewers, but also frustrated LCK players and even netizens.
They discovered that Li Luo seemed to truly not care about the defeat in this year's World Championship, nor did he care about whether the All-Star Tournament deliberately created by Riot Games was the only opportunity for revenge for LPL this year.
Euphiles has been selected, isn't it obvious that they are aiming to lose?
On the commentary panel, Wawa also quickly takes control.
"Perhaps Luo Ge has truly practiced Euphiles in private..."
This is something even the doll wouldn't believe if it came from their own mouth.
“However, both team compositions have been finalized, with the blue side being the LCK team: top lane Kennen, jungle Nidalee, mid lane Twisted Fate, and the bottom lane duo of Jhin paired with Bard.”
"On the red side of the LPL region, the top laner, Holy Gun, also picked Kennen, jungle Spider Queen, mid lane Syndra, and bottom lane Aphelios paired with Lulu!"
"Both teams' players are ready, let's enter Summoner's Rift together!"
Despite many viewers being dissatisfied with Li's selection of a new hero, they still cheered loudly in the arena when the game started.
Amidst the faint sound of cheers, Deft stared at the screen intently and whispered to himself, "You will pay the price for underestimating them."
Amidst the resounding cheers, both teams entered Summoner's Rift with ten players.
"Should we be aggressive in the early game?"
Keria communicated with Deft as they left the base.
After a brief moment of thought, Deft spoke in a low voice: "Yes, he hasn't played a game for a long time, so he couldn't possibly have muscle memory."
After all, the champion I picked was the female police officer, the ADC with the longest basic attack range in the entire league. It would be too embarrassing if he still didn't dare to fight.
On the other side, at the battle seat.
"Lao Li, what do you think?"
Meiko asked.
Li Luo appeared relaxed, without a hint of nervousness, his lips slightly curled up: "Same as always."
“ok。”
Meiko suddenly understood.
After both sides of the bottom lane helped the jungler in the usual way, they gradually gathered on the bottom lane.
Deft controlled Caitlyn to move forward, while on the other side, Keria controlled Bard and approached from the bush.
However, Meiko's Lulu is also in the bush.
Both supports are almost simultaneously gaining vision in the bush and notice each other.
As Meiko's Lulu raises her hand to basic attack Bard, Bard also raises his hand to cast Q.
On the other side, deft and Li Luo are engaging in synchronized combat.
Deft's Caitlyn does indeed have a base range of 650 points.
However, Aphelios, when holding the weapon Thumbs Up, also has a range of 650 points. Translation:
Both of their basic attacks almost hit the target at the same time, but the difference is that there is a shield from Lulu above Ezreal's head.
When combined with Lulu's Pix, the damage is undoubtedly higher than that of Caitlyn. Please note that the above translation is a direct translation and may not be fluent in English.
Moreover, Li Luo is relentless and quickly accelerates forward with the help of swift steps, following up with a basic attack.
Just as Deft, who only wants to retreat, is about to turn around with his first move, Li Luo has already turned around.
One person aed twice, one person aed once.
Although Lulu's side consumed one Q skill's health, in terms of the overall bottom lane, it is still advantageous for the side of Li Luo. Please note that the translation of the @ matches may vary depending on their meaning in the context.
“Tsk, just a level one shield.”
deft frowned.
Although he was pulled by Li Luo for a bit, he wasn't flustered. If it hadn't been for Lulu giving the shield, Li Luo wouldn't have dared to chase him down to poke him again.
deft, no matter what, doesn't believe that his signature female police character can't defeat Li Luo using the new hero.
The bottom lane is also full of tensions as they trade blows, and there is also a lot of tension in the other lanes. Translated:
After clearing one and a half jungle camps, mlxg, who is at level 3, immediately comes to the middle lane. After Rookie stuns Showmaker's Twisted Fate with Lux's Q and E combo, mlxg decisively flashes and follows up with Elise's cocoon to immobilize him.
showmaker temporarily upgrades his Limiting Jump to chase after mlxg's Spider Queen, and forcefully kills her.
Inside the jungle, canyon's Leopard Woman arrives just in time and throws a spear towards mlxg's location. However, due to mlxg's movement, the little spider blocks the attack for him.
Mlxg safely exits the defense tower, but not before leaving a final blast behind.
The crowd erupts in excitement.
While the audience had expected this match to be exciting, they didn't anticipate the explosive start.
However, the audience's real focus is still on the bot lane.
After laning for a while, both deft and keria furrowed their brows.
"Something's not right."
“I also feel that something is off.”
“Is this thing's suppressive power really that strong?”
At this moment, deft's health is below half.
All of this stems from Li Luo's previous wave of damage.
When Li Luo finished using his Red Blade and changed his weapon to the Green Blue Blade, with the acceleration given by Lulu, Li Luo controlled Aphelios to press forward. With a raised hand, he unleashed a brilliant Yinyan AQ ultimate distance and reached Deft. Translated content: When Li Luo finished using his Red Blade and changed his weapon to the Green Blue Blade, with the acceleration given by Lulu, Li Luo controlled Aphelios to press forward. With a raised hand, he unleashed a brilliant Yinyan AQ ultimate distance and reached Deft.
While Yingtian's Q ability hit Deft's Caitlyn, it also cleared the minions in front of her. Deft helplessly watched as Li Luxian switched to his remaining Greaves and auto-attacked him, followed by landing his Q ability.
After releasing the q skill, Tong Bi's Green Sword also turned into a Purple Sword. The second raised hand followed up with a distant a on his policewomen. Then, the subsequent q from Zhui Ming was released to consume his health. With the cooperation of Lulu's forward q, even in the situation where Deft consumed his health potion, he still only had half of his health remaining.
Still being pressed under the tower and eating turret shots!
This...
is really not right.
Even deft has played the new champion, although only a few games.
But as for the concept of a cutlass or something, it's still quite vague.
How to give Li Luo the impression of being highly skilled?
Coincidentally, Xiaohu's Elise arrived in the bottom lane at the right time and attacked their backline.
At this moment, Canyon is ganking Senna in the top lane, so he can only watch what happens in the bottom lane. On the side of the card, because he doesn't have his ultimate, Rookie is able to suppress him and restrict his movements.
“LCK on this side...getting pushed and attacked!”
In the commentator's booth, Guan Zeyuan was stunned.
This is not what they expected before the match.
Rookie didn't even make it to Worlds this year.
IG is on the verge of collapse.
Currently, Rookie is dominating Showmaker.
Undoubtedly, this is partly due to Ning's previous ganks and hero attribute suppression.
Putting aside the mid lane, the jungle is also under pressure.
Canyon's attempt to gank the top lane was unsuccessful, but Teddy's foresight allowed him to avoid the risk. Even when facing the tower-diving aggression of Bull Gulch, he remained calm and even maneuvered Kennen to dance. Please note that in English, the @ symbol does not carry the same meaning as it does in Chinese. It is used primarily as an email or social media handle symbol.
On the bottom lane, after Lulu's polymorph cooldown is complete, XiangGuo, LiLuo, and Meiko perfectly dive under the tower.
With the tower-diving ability of the Spider Queen, the three of them have extremely high resistance to tower damage.
The Spider Queen of the Spicy Pot and Li Luo's Aphelios each gained a kill.
"Stay safe in the bottom lane."
Showmaker is somewhat helpless, will they have to wait until he reaches level 6?
Not even level 6 and already been tower-dived once, and they were using the new hero!
On the surface, it may not seem related to Deft since he was tower-dived by the spider.
But what is the reason for diving under the tower?
Isn't it because their lane was pushed?
If the red team's minions didn't come in, how would the spider have a chance to dive?
So here is the question, why did the bot lane, when they had one of the best AD champions for pushing the lane like Jinx, end up being pushed back?
"This person clears the wave so quickly."
As Li Luo used Ying Yan's blue blade to harvest the minions like cutting wheat, Deft looked on with astonishment.
Based on his previous observations, Epherlius is a typical late-game hypercarry AD when it comes to team fights.
Compared to many other heroes, Aphelios initially lacks any advantage in terms of laning ability.
After all, his lack of an E ability feels like he's missing a natural skill.
However, Li Luo's control over his blades taught him a lesson.
Game time is 6 minutes and 30 seconds.
Finally, the Leopard woman has a chance to gank the bottom lane.
Unfortunately, both sides of the bottom lane are equipped with squishy supports, making it difficult to secure first blood on either side.
keria uses the vision advantage from the wild area to directly open a tunnel and brings Nidalee over to capture.
They didn't intend to kill Aphelios, who is protected by Lulu. In this situation, their main goal is to catch and kill anyone.
When the spear of Cougar is blocked by the skillful mirror of Aphelios, Canyon's eyes also bulge.
Is this West Bae really capable?
The audience on site has already realized that something is wrong.
The voice questioning Li Luo has gradually diminished.
"Damn, I also played this new hero and felt as dumb as hell. How come Li Luo plays it so elegantly?"
"Why does Li Luo's new hero have so many skills? When I play Evelyn, I always use up one type of knife before switching to the next. So, this hero requires both knives to be used together?"
"Turtle, Lo Ge's strength."
"Blackie said!"
"I seriously suspect that this is all Lo Ge's diversionary tactic. He has probably been secretly training all this time."
"LCK, your dad is back!"
The Tieba forum also went crazy with a series of elegant moves by Li Luo.
However, what really drove them crazy was a play at 8 minutes and 30 seconds into the game.
MLXG's gank from the bottom lane is detected in advance.
Deft's Caitlyn immediately retreats.
Can we still catch them?
MLXG moves closer to flank while asking.
"No problem."
Seeing the female detective start to move, Li Luoqie of the Green Blue Blade swiftly swings his Def Q towards Deft.
Deft didn't take this Green Blade's Q ability seriously at first, but as he tried to dodge it, he realized he couldn't escape and decided to take the hit. After all, his health was healthy, and moreover, Ephyra's Green Blue Blade didn't have any crowd control abilities.
However, as Deft was thinking this, he saw Aphelios swiftly switch to the blue knife with his Q skill, and then immediately threw out a Q at the air with the blue knife.
The remaining blue knife disappeared, replaced by the purple knife symbolizing the Fall of Light.
"Ah, it's you..."
deft's expression drastically changes.
After Ephyliustongbiliq lands a hit on him, he fails to follow up with another attack.
According to deft's original plan, this follow-up attack could either be the green blade of Ephyliustongbiliq itself.
Or it could just be the blue knife.
But Li Luo's sudden control over the knife turned the blue knife into a purple one, and what followed was the Fall of Light striking him!
The slowing effect provided by Zhmaing causes the female officer's footsteps to gradually become sluggish.
But Li Luo did not hand over the death sentence Q skill immediately.
He was waiting for MLXG's spider to be in position.
Only when the death sentence Q skill was about to disappear, Li Luo finally released it.
Purple light appeared on the policewoman's body, and then she was controlled by Xiangguo's spider web!
Keira just went to help Showmaker relieve some pressure, but when she turned around, she found her own AD fallen in front of the defense tower.
A few little spiders crawled over Deft's dead body.
The scene erupted into an uproar.
The commentator exclaimed in excitement, "Is Falu playing the same game as us? No, he's playing art!"