Rise

To that end, Shanghai High School’s Irelia was attempting to bring him a real challenge.
She was a good player who climbed all the way to Diamond 1.
Right now, though, she was trying everything she possibly could to prevent losing this lane.
She’d managed to get the minion wave all the way back to her tower, and then froze it just outside the tower’s range.
It was not an easy task to pull off, since Lin Feng’s Wukong was doing everything possible to disrupt the wave freeze.
But she managed to do it, and she also found a few opportunities here and there to attack Wukong. 

Her go-to trick was dashing to a minion near the Wukong with Bladesurge and killing it.
This reset the cooldown on Bladesurge.
Then she’d auto attack the Wukong before using Bladesurge to dash back to a minion who was closer to her tower.
Then she’d run underneath the safety of the tower, making it difficult for the Wukong to do anything back to her without risking a tower-dive death.
And she also had her Equilibrium Strike ready and waiting as a card up her sleeve.
If the Wukong ever tried to counterattack or trap her, she could just stun him underneath her tower.

Lin Feng watched the Irelia dash back and forth, amazed at her mechanical prowess.
“Wow! So fancy!” he whispered to himself.
Then he giggled a little before saying, “Yeah! More of that! Push me harder! Make me work for it! ’ ’ Irelia was playing her little trick flawlessly.
He couldn’t engage her, because the only way he could was with a towerdive.
Then she’d just stun him and kill him. It’s fine.
I’m not in a rush anyway.
We can take it slow! The Irelia could try anything she wanted, she could pull every trick in the book, it wouldn’t make a difference.
She could not change the fact that he was very much in command of the lane. But… since I’m not going to get any further with her right now… 

Lin Feng knew that getting another kill on the Irelia was going to be more than a little difficult right now.
And it wasn’t worth the risk.
So Lin Feng decided to do what any good Toplaner would do in this situation.
 He started looking for opportunities elsewhere on the map.
One of his summoner spells was Teleport, and he hadn’t used it yet.
More importantly, the Irelia had used her Teleport to get back into lane after he killed her.
That meant that her spell was still on cooldown, and she couldn’t use it to follow him.

Lin Feng panned his camera to the bot lane and spotted an opening.
He asked over the team’s voice chat, “Do the Jinx and Thresh have Flash?”

“The Thresh still has his, but the Jinx doesn’t,” Wei Dong replied.

“Perfect!” Lin Feng said, grinning.
“I’m coming bot!” But first, he had to do something about the minion wave in top lane.
He pushed it out hard, thawing and then shattering the minion wave freeze that the Irelia had worked so hard to create.
Then he recalled back to base.
He spent his gold to upgrade his items and then teleported to a ward in the bot lane.

Shanghai High School’s Thresh and Jinx were pushing the minion wave in bot lane all the way to High School 13’s outer tower.
But they had no idea that Wei Dong had warded one of the brushes along the bottom side of the bot lane.
Recently, Wei Dong had turned into somewhat of a specialist when it came to warding.
He wasn’t as mechanically gifted as other Supports nor was he the best shotcaller.
But he was an expert when it came to placing deep wards for Teleport ganks.
A red pillar of light descended on the ward.

Zeng Rui spotted it.
He shouted, “Retreat!” over his team’s voice chat.
Then started running back towards the Blue outer tower.
The Jinx lagged behind him, so he threw his lantern at her.
She clicked it and dashed to his side.
Zeng Rui commanded, “To the tower! To the tower! I got this!” He then moved towards the brush to intercept the Wukong.
The Teleport animation finished and a moment later, the Wukong walked out of the brush and towards him.
But then the Wukong abruptly stopped walking and stood still. 

Zeng Rui pressed down on his E key–Flay! Jinx was behind him, the Wukong was in front of him.
It was beyond obvious. He is trying to get past me with Warrior Trickster! His Thresh sent a chain scythe flaying forward, hoping to knock back and slow the Wukong who he thought was running past him in stealth.

The audience could clearly see what was happening on the large screen above the stage.
They were watching in spectator mode and could see Champions hidden with stealth.
But they weren’t watching an invisible Wukong running past Thresh.
They were watching a Wukong stand in place, tricking the Thresh into wasting his Flay!

    “WHAT? That actually worked! Hahaha!”

    “Holy crap… 300 IQ move right there!”

    “WOOOWW! How even… DANG!”

    “That Wukong has over 9000 IQ!”

    “HAHAHA! Best Support my ass! That Thresh SUCKS!”

    “LOL! How do you even fall for that! What a noob!”

    “DAYUM! WHAT A PLAY! That Wukong… DAYUM!”

Lin Feng pressed down on the E key–Nimbus Strike! His Wukong leapt forth from a springboard of clouds and dashed in on the Thresh.
Then he charged past the Thresh and slammed down on the Jinx’s head with his enchanted staff–Crushing Blow!

Zeng Rui reacted almost instantly.
He had his Thresh turn around and throw his sickle at the Wukong–Death Sentence! But Lin Feng saw this coming too.
He was even waiting for it.
The moment the animation started, he slammed down on the W key–Warrior Trickster! His Wukong split into two, the clone replacing the real body.
The Death Sentence hit the clone, while the real Wukong was already pressing forward in stealth.
Lin Feng grinned and said in his best impression of Wukong, “Improve your skills! Then find me again.”

The thundering… Zeng Rui stared at his screen, his eyes wide in shock.
He couldn’t even finish his thought.
This wasn’t a dumbass move. Crap.
Crap CrapCrap! He rushed to help the Jinx, though he’d already used all his skills.

Westwind jumped to his feet and clutched his microphone tightly in his grasp.
“DID YOU SEE THAT? DID YOU ALL SEE THAT?” He waited for a second.
He allowed the audience to start cheering.
But they barely did.
There was somewhat of a stunned silence.
“I can’t hear you!” he shouted, which had the audience get a little rowdier.
“I CAN’T HEAR YOU!” That did it.
A few people in the crowd shot to their feet and started cheering and whistling, which in turn saw more people getting up.
Before long, more than half the crowd was up on their feet, throwing their arms around in the air and screaming at the top of their lungs, “WIN-FENG! WIN-FENG!”

Silent Reed wasn’t one of them.
She sat, stunned.
“This Wukong is nuts.
Bananas.
Crazy,” she mumbled.
“That was an insanely risky move to play.
And he did it against Zeng Rui of all people! That’s a once and then never again kind of move, if you ask me.
Zeng Rui won’t fall for it again.”