After two light and nimble Broken Wings dances, the Renekton was horrified to find that, with the added damage from the turret, his original three-quarters health had dropped to less than one-third. On top of that, he was ignited, and feeling the killing intent from the enemy Riven, Renekton was just about to use his freshly cooled-down E skill to escape. But at that very moment, Riven’s third Broken Wings slammed down, and the knock-up effect perfectly interrupted Renekton’s E dash.

On the other end of the network, the player controlling Renekton was clearly stunned. Damn, is this kind of play even possible at this rank? He suddenly felt like he was dreaming. It must be a fluke, just a coincidence.

In the game, after Renekton’s skill was interrupted, he obviously froze in place for a moment, which resulted in taking another auto attack from Riven, leaving him at death’s door. Clinging to his last hope, Renekton turned around and stunned the aggressive Riven behind him, then tried to flash away. But 0.5 seconds later, Henry Thompson flashed as well, dashed forward with E, and finished him off with an auto attack.

First blood!!

The first blood sound effect rang out from the speakers. The other teammates in their lanes had no idea what was happening in the top lane, so there was no reaction. Only the jungler Master Yi, worried that the top lane would go AFK after giving up first blood, had been keeping an eye on top and happened to witness this spectacular play, typing a “Nice!”

Then Master Yi, a bit puzzled, asked in the chat box: “Top, why does your Riven do so much damage?”

Henry Thompson didn’t reply. He arrogantly recalled right in front of the enemy turret, then bought two Long Swords and a Health Potion.

After Henry Thompson’s recall animation disappeared, the enemy jungler Lee Sin finally rushed to the top lane. Renekton, frustrated, asked Lee Sin why he was so late. Lee Sin simply replied, “Play safe next wave, I’ll help you gank.”

Meanwhile, on Korea’s largest streaming platform azubu, the popular pro jungler known as the “esports flower boy,” Watch, was doing his debut livestream.

In this game, he was using a low-ranked smurf account randomly selected from his fans. At the start, he instantly locked in jungle Lee Sin. After all, performing in front of thousands of fans, Lee Sin in low ranks was obviously easier to show off with and gain popularity.

After the game started, fans quickly noticed that the enemy team had an ID called “Gwangju Jiseong Audio Store.” Normally, this was clearly a pro player doing a sponsored account. In the fans’ minds, Watch was naturally the strongest, so the comment section, with hundreds of thousands of viewers, was flooded with messages mourning for that pro player.

But soon, fans noticed that the Riven, who had been AFK under the tower, actually got first blood, and Renekton was brainlessly complaining that Watch wasn’t helping. So the comment section started flooding with criticism of that Renekton.

Renekton returned to lane with an extra Long Sword in his bag, but didn’t take Lee Sin’s words to heart. He thought, “This time I have Ignite and you don’t. I’m Renekton, why would I be afraid of your Riven? I’ll just go all in first.”

Henry Thompson was naturally unfazed. As soon as Renekton dashed in with E, he was instantly stunned in place by a W. With lightning-fast hands, Henry Thompson pulled off two quick Q-A combos, then used E’s shield to absorb some of Renekton’s counterattack damage after waking up, and finally unleashed the last Q-A, instantly knocking Renekton to half health and launching him into the air. The burst damage was insane!

Luckily, this time Renekton had saved the second part of his E and, seeing things go south, quickly dashed back to create distance.

Henry Thompson wasn’t in a hurry to kill him either, and just started freezing the wave in place.

Half-health Renekton returned to his own turret, only to see the Riven who had just chunked him to half health shamelessly freezing the wave. He instantly felt like he was about to lose his mind!

“Jungle, come help me gank top!” Renekton started calling for Lee Sin.

Lee Sin had just helped his own Orianna mid laner kill Henry Thompson’s Syndra and was recalling in the bush. Seeing the message, he just replied, “Wait for me.”

Renekton had no choice but to stand in front of his turret, occasionally sneaking into the XP zone when Henry Thompson wasn’t paying attention to grab some experience, waiting for the wave to push in.

However, it wasn’t until he hit level 5 that he was dumbfounded to find that the wave had only moved forward a tiny bit, and he wasn’t even sure if it was his imagination, but the level 6 Riven was leisurely last-hitting minions.

This was the perfect wave control ability that, in his previous life, made all pro players in the esports scene fear Henry Thompson. To truly achieve perfect wave control required extremely sharp attention to detail—not only understanding the attack intervals of a wave, but also positioning based on their attack order, so you could get that last crucial hit before the enemy’s low-health minion was taken by the final auto attack.

At this moment, Watch’s Lee Sin ward-hopped over the wall at Baron, counter-jungled Master Yi’s red buff, and hit level 6. He was careful not to go directly through the tri-brush, but instead looped around from the Krugs.

In Watch’s azubu stream chat:

“Wow, amazing! Watch’s warding and pathing awareness is insane!”

“Haha, Riven’s doomed now!”

“Riven is dead for sure, just hope that noob Renekton doesn’t steal Watch’s kill!”

Seeing the jungler finally coming to help with double buffs, Renekton charged in like he was on steroids. As a Silver-ranked player, he conveniently forgot to compare the time it took for the jungler to come from Krugs with the time it would take Riven to kill him.