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ould come out on top!

Back inside the hotel room in Beijing, Lin Feng decided to push out the minion wave after taking Zed down.
His Yasuo took out two red minions with auto attacks, and then the next blue minion wave arrived.
He watched as his minions pushed out all the way to the Red Outer Tower in the Mid lane, and then pulled his Yasuo back to the Blue Outer Tower.
Then Lin Feng started to recall back to base.
He only allowed himself to relax when his Yasuo was finally back in the safety of the Blue base, and exhaled a long pent up breath. 

An Xin smiled and gently put her hand on Lin Feng’s shoulders soothingly, “That was a great fight.
You were amazing, Lin Feng!”

The praise meant the world to Lin Feng, and his face lit up with a tired smile.
“It was something else.
Fighting Orion was not easy, at all.
He’s probably the strongest player I’ve gone up against since starting to come back.
I had to go all out and then pull out something extra! If I made the tiniest mistake or I was just a touch too slow… I would’ve been killed.
But I won, An Xin! I won!” 

An Xin smiled and patted his shoulder twice.
Lin Feng finally relaxed enough to hear his own thoughts. I won! That’s all that matters here.
Not just that fight, either.
I’ve pretty much won this game. Lin Feng looked at Zed’s corpse in the Mid lane. From here on out, Orion isn’t a threat.
Now it’s time to focus up and win this thing!

14 minutes from the start of the game, both Yasuo and Zed were back in the Mid lane and poking at each other.
Orion was playing much more cautiously and all of his earlier confidence was gone.
Gragas, the Red Team’s Jungler, decided to roam into the Mid lane for a gank.
He hid in the bottom-side river brush until the right moment, and then Flashed forward and dashed into Yasuo with a Body Slam.
The combo knocked Yasuo up into the air.
But Gragas wasn’t done yet.
He threw an Explosive Cask at the knocked up Yasuo and sent him flying back!

Orion was playing more carefully now, but that didn’t mean that he had completely given up.
He sent his Zed in to follow up on Gragas’ attack, and Orion decided not to hold back at all.
Zed went in with his ultimate—Death Mark! Four crimson Living Shadows converged onto Yasuo and left an ominous red mark over his head.

The situation looked dire for Yasuo.
But he created some distance by dashing to a red minion behind him with a Sweeping Blade.
But this was a tactical retreat, not a frantic one.
Yasuo pulled back to create an opening.
And Blue Team’s Sejuani and Thresh rushed into that opening when they arrived in the Mid lane seconds later.
They were counter ganking!

Sejuani charged into Zed with an Arctic Assault and knocked him up into the air! Yasuo seized the opportunity presented by the knock up to unleash his ultimate—Last Breath! He blinked over to Zed who was still flying up into the air and unleashed a rapid flurry of attacks with his katana.
And then finished the combo with a final downward slash that slammed Zed back to the ground. 

Before Zed could get back up, Thresh was already there and waiting with a Death Sentence.
His chain and sickle wrapped around Zed to lock the battered ninja down and stun him.
Yasuo gracefully landed down near Zed and immediately slashed out with an auto attack.
Then he pierced Zed with a Steel Tempest that seamlessly comboed into an auto attack.
Next came another Steel Tempest that critically injured the already wounded Zed.
That was more damage than Zed could handle, and he fell lifelessly to the ground.

While Yasuo and Thresh teamed up to sever Zed’s connection to the mortal plane, Sejuani had not been idle.
She’d been keeping Gragas busy and away from Zed.
And once Zed died, Sejuani locked Gragas down with a Glacial Prison.
Then Thresh, Yasuo, and Sejuani combined forces to beat Gragas to death.
The final blow was delivered by Yasuo’s katana, giving him the kill.

《Double kill!》

The chat on Lightless’ stream erupted into waves of cheering, interspersed with comments about how Yasuo had finally become fed, how Orion had been killed twice in a row, and how CN•HOOK2’s victory was on the horizon. 

Over in Seoul, Moon was sitting in Fate’s Gaming House and watching Orion’s game dispassionately.
Eventually, he sighed, shook his head and looked away.
The outcome of this game was more than clear to his eyes. Orion’s tilted…