When Li Yao returned to the lane, it was immediately clear that Akali was no longer playing as aggressively as she had at the start.
It wasn't that Knight didn't want to, but Sylas's first item being straight-up Mercury's Treads left him a bit at a loss for how to engage.
Knight knew very well that this Sylas was bound to rush Mercury's Treads. After all, looking at the team compositions, if this Sylas wanted to be effective, he had to coordinate with his teammates to dive the backline, and during the mid-game macro operations, he might even end up in a 1v1 side-lane matchup against his Akali.
Chapter 52