Chapter 253 - Four against two, a familiar tower dive

"I understand."

PDD in the commentary booth suddenly realized, "At level 1, they exchanged jungle vision and confirmed each other's jungler's starting position. Both sides obtained the same information. But from the perspective of the mid-jungle combination, even if you knew Yuanshen's approximate position, it would be meaningless!"

"They can just come at you head-on, plain and simple!"

"The hard control and burst of this combination are indeed a bit outrageous." Guan Zeyuan nodded repeatedly. He was feeling a little itchy now, and was thinking about going home and trying out this strategy after commentating today's game.

The commentator had just finished his comments when something unusual happened in Summoner's Rift.

On the scene, Ahri's kill was taken by Rookie's Pantheon.

After killing Leblanc, Taliyah and Pantheon worked together to eat the minions in the middle lane and pushed the line of troops to the enemy tower.

The economy of the middle lane must not be lost, of course. Condi's Lee Sin immediately rushed to the middle lane to supplement the line, but his position was not careful enough. He went straight forward to supplement the kill and was outside the range of the defensive tower.

Seeing Mr. Kang's position so arrogant, Yuan Shen, who was still playing with the river crab nearby, gave up the river crab directly, marked several signals in succession, and called Rookie who was returning to the city in the middle and upper bushes.

Rookie immediately canceled the recall, blocked the vision of the middle river wall, moved around the corner along the wall and attacked. The moment he appeared in the enemy's field of vision, he stepped on it with W at the maximum distance, stunning Lee Sin, and Taliyah followed up with WEQ's output.

The terrifying outburst of the two caused the blind monk's health bar to drop sharply. The first moment Mr. Kang got rid of the control, he quickly cast a layer of shield on himself to block some damage, then flashed to create distance and escaped back to the defense tower.

But it was of no avail. Pantheon continued to chase and took two hits from the defense tower. When his skill cooldown ended, he threw another spear and took the life of Lee Sin.

He turned around and left the tower, and took two more hits from the tower.

However, of the four attacks from the defense tower, only two were effective.

The first hit was blocked by the [Holy Shield] refreshed by Pantheon's W, and the fourth hit after leaving the tower was blocked by the [Holy Shield] refreshed by Rookie's basic attack on the minions.

"Ahhh!"

At the scene, there were both excited shouts from IG fans and sad screams from the WE girl.

"Condi was too careless this time! He thought that the opponent's mid laner was returning to the city and he was backed by the defensive tower, so he was safe?" Smile said a little angrily.

As a veteran of WE, I almost had a heart attack when I saw this scene.

If it was Mingkai, he would definitely not die in this wave!

"Well, I don't think Condi can be blamed."

PDD happily explained for Mr. Kang: "It will take a while for this new and novel tactic to get used to in the arena. Condi probably didn't expect the opponent to be so ruthless."

It seems comforting, but coupled with PDD's mean expression, the smile seems to make him even angrier.

In the WE team voice, Mr. Kang also hurriedly apologized.

No matter what the reason for the mistake was, he did provide some warmth.

Originally, the opposing mid and jungler killed Leblanc and got the first blood.

However, this also gave WE an opportunity to fight back.

What opportunity?
flash!

The opponent's mid and jungler don't have flash, but their mid and jungler do, so this is the opportunity.

As a result, he died in this wave and also used his flash, which was the most fatal thing.

Not only did he lose 300 yuan for the kill, but he also used up his flash and wasted the rhythm of the counterattack.

"Thank you Mr. Kang for sending 100 heads. It's so comfortable. Kimoji!"

Rookie was smiling happily. He got two kills including the first blood, and he made a net profit of 700 yuan. Taking into account the money from last hitting, the money he had was more than enough to buy an armor-piercing Serrated Dagger.

Level 3 Pantheon, with a serrated dagger, what does this mean? Those who understand will understand.

Invincible online!

Originally, it should be like this...

But Rookie did not buy the Serrated Dagger, but instead bought a set of five-speed boots + longsword.

"Wow, this outfit is a bit..." Guan Zeyuan was stunned.

"Is this really... a roaming mid laner?? Now Rookie doesn't need to carry the game himself, and his playing style has become more varied." Smile also said in an unspeakable tone.

When the team needs him to stand out, he can carry the team by himself. At the same time, he is good at setting the pace in the early and mid-term, nurturing his teammates, and letting his teammates carry the team.

This is Rookie's style now.

Versatile, unpredictable, the perfect hexagonal mid laner.

Objectively speaking, Rookie's current playing style has no weaknesses.

Even Wei Shen and Pawn are now suppressed by Rookie.

The No. 1 mid laner in LPL, well-deserved.

Plus the No. 1 jungler in LPL, the top three top laners and bottom laners in LPL...

The current IG is incredibly strong on paper.

Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses.

Uzi consumes too many resources.

Clearlove was too steady at times and missed opportunities.

TheShy is not as aggressive and reckless as Yuan Shen when he is in command.

Faker used to be too proud and too confident, but now he is too team-oriented.

Yuan Shen, who is now attracting worldwide attention, is no exception. The carry hero he chose will cause some defects in the team lineup, which must be filled by his teammates.

Every player has his or her own strengths and weaknesses. Only by harmonizing the characteristics of the players, making up for each other's shortcomings and bringing out their respective strengths can we be called a team.

League of Legends, a team game.

Strictly speaking, everyone is a slacker, and the strongest team is the one that protects each other.

After all, there is no absolutely correct way to play League of Legends, and there are reasons why some BPs that seem strange are chosen.

But the audience only recognizes winning or losing.

We lost, so everything we said was wrong, and all the BP was wrong.

But as long as they win, fans will have all kinds of strange ways to praise the contestants to the sky.

But Rookie's strengths are too perfect right now.

His two styles can adapt to almost all of IG's playing and tactical systems.

Combined with Yuan Shen's jungling, it can be said to be the perfect mid-jungle!
This mid-jungle pair can not only try their best to set the pace, fatten up the two carry points of the team, the top laner and ADC, and liberate Ming's roaming ability, but also carry the game themselves and take on the responsibility of C in the game.

"Perfect"

After making the five-speed shoes and going out, Rookie looked around, and when the camera turned to the top lane, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"ShyShy, I'm here, please wait for me!".

There is a chance to catch it on the road.

Heroes with long arms will attack heroes with short arms, and will certainly not miss the opportunity to use normal attacks to deplete the enemy's health.

Naturally, it will cause a push.

957 uses Gnar to fight against Kled. During his hero's strong period, he must be aggressive. He will not be timid just because your name is TheShy'.

Therefore, what is shown in the top lane is Gnar's pushing status.

Of course, 957 is not mindless and aggressive. Unlike the offensive top laner TheShy, his style is the traditional LPL blue-collar type of stability. He established vision in the river early to ensure safety, and always kept a distance from Kled so that he would not be hit by [Duel].

This is not the first time that Yuan Shen has watched 957 on the line. His evaluation of 957 is: his operation may not be sharp, but he handles all kinds of details very delicately and he is very experienced.

Before the S8 transformation, 957 had always been a stable pillar of the WE team.

If you want to catch this experienced top laner, the only way is to wait for him to make a mistake or to surprise him.

"Walking so fast?" 957 was surprised when he saw Pantheon in his vision.

Rookie got a big advantage, but he didn't strengthen his laning ability, but strengthened his roaming ability. This was too radical. There was only one reason for this action, and that was that Rookie had full trust in his teammates.

Just like believing in yourself.

957 anticipated that he might be caught, but he never expected Pantheon to come so quickly. The extra movement speed provided by the five-speed shoes was too much.

Fortunately, Pantheon has no flash, while Gnar has flash and E, so he has a lot of room for maneuver.

Gnar retreated, and Kled pursued.

957 kept a close eye on Kled's every move, and when Kled used E to throw Q, he immediately used E to evade.

If Kled's EQ combo is released quickly, it can have the effect of hiding the Q, that is, the enemy may not be able to see Kled's hook attack.

957 predicted that Kled would use the EQ combo.

His prediction was successful.

however……

957 was also predicted.

Kled started with his EQ combo, and Gnar used his E skill to jump away diagonally, but the direction of the hook was also diagonal.

"quack--!"

The hook made a sound as if it was being tightened. 957's heart tightened and he pressed the flash button, trying to create some distance and break the hook.

But almost at the moment before he flashed out, Kled also flashed out.

From the commentator's and the audience's bird's eye view, the two of them flashed almost synchronously, and the grappling hook remained linked the entire time.

“Ooooooh!”

There was an uproar at the scene.

Guan Zeyuan slammed the table and shouted excitedly: "Oh my god, Kled's predicted flash was amazing! Gnar is doomed this time."

"really……"

He said the conclusion with a smile and sighed inwardly.

The hook was not broken, the second stage of Q was triggered, and Gnar was pulled back a distance.

When Pantheon with five-speed boots arrives on the battlefield, he uses a WAQE combo, which is simple and unpretentious.

General Kerait was in a frenzy, swinging his sword wildly and taking heads.

When the director cut to the playback footage, netizens were talking about it and praising it.

"This predicted flash is so cool!"

"I suddenly realized that since last year's S game, IG's attacks on the top lane have rarely failed."

"Foreign media have also commented on this, saying that Yuan Shen is very good at creating favorable situations for his team in the lane, which makes it very comfortable for the jungler to gank the top lane, and his ability to seize opportunities is too strong. After switching to the jungle this year, with his understanding of the top lane, his gank success rate is also not low."

"It makes sense for someone who is used to playing Leblanc to predict the flash, but I was a little surprised that Kled could also perform such a combo."

After this successful gank, IG's top, mid and jungle completely took control.

This pace is too fast.

The game was only five minutes into the game, and the highest-level heroes were only level four, but WE's top, mid and jungle were already at a huge disadvantage. This was a situation that no one who had made predictions before the game had expected.

After killing Gnar, Pantheon, wearing five-speed boots, rushed back to the middle lane, just in time to collect a wave of soldiers under the tower.

Rookie's roaming rhythm is weird.

For most mid laners, their first priority is their own development, and only secondly, roaming.

It is basic common sense for mid laners to roam after pushing the line - there are no minions to eat in the line, so if you roam at this time, even if you fail, your own development will hardly suffer any loss.

After all, no player can be sure that this roaming move will be successful.

Therefore, the most important thing for a mid-lane hero is line control. The hero who has strong line control in this version will become a popular mid-lane hero in the game.

Rookie belongs to the minority, he reversed the order.

He often chooses to support roaming when the line of troops is stuck in the middle or is pushed.

If the roaming is successful and you get a kill, it's fine. But if you don't get a kill, you will be using your own development to feed your teammates, and you won't earn anything because you lose soldiers and experience. Just sing a song "Offering of Love".

If the roaming fails, then the opponent's mid laner will be given the advantage. If he lags behind in development, he will not have much carry ability in the later stage and the pressure will be transferred to his teammates.

This style of play is a bit unconventional and non-mainstream.

Even with the cooperation of teammates, it is easy to ruin yourself in the game.

But what people don’t know is that a lot of Rookie’s roaming was directed by Yuan Shen.

Yuan Shen was deeply touched after learning a special counter-rhythm jungling technique from Xiang Guo.

Because of the monsters, the Gank success rate is very high.

This principle also applies to the middle road.

Rookie's roaming timing is difficult to predict, so it often has unexpected effects.

As for Yuan Shen, he transferred the risks and benefits of Gank to Rookie, while also ensuring his own development.

Kill two birds with one stone!
Even if Rookie's roaming fails, he can still take over the responsibility of carrying the game in the late game.

Double insurance.

On the middle lane, one wave of soldiers had not been cleared yet, and when the next wave of soldiers was about to reach the middle lane, Rookie suddenly moved towards the jungle area.

Xiye didn't take it seriously at first. There were two waves of soldiers on the line, and anyone who roamed around would be a fool. He thought the opponent was going to the jungle to place a ward and would be back soon.

But after six or seven seconds, when Rookie still hadn't come back, he quickly sent out a signal.

"Miss Zhong! Be careful in the bottom lane!!"

But, it's too late.

Pantheon and Taliyah appeared behind WE's bottom lane duo.

The classic four-for-two is here.

Pantheon has a layer of [Holy Shield Protection] on his body and is not afraid of the attack from the defense tower at all.

Pantheon's W provides stable hard control, Taliyah uses WEQ, Thresh uses Q, and Lucian keeps up with the output.

Braum is a tough guy, but his security door can only block skills in one direction.

If you block Taliyah's Q damage, you won't be able to block Thresh's Q.

vice versa.

As long as she is hit by one of the skills, Han Bing's small body will surely die, and the double skills will be useless.

IG's coordination in this tower dive was so skillful and perfect. The timing, angle, and sequence of each person's skill release were impeccable, blocking all of the brother-in-law's operating space.

In the previous regular season, IG had many accidents due to tower diving, thus giving up the advantage in the early and mid-game. Many fans at the time scolded them for being too reckless and playing without thinking.

Jack, in particular, has been killed countless times due to tower diving mistakes, and was even criticized by the audience as IG's biggest weakness, a rough guy.

But now look at their cooperation.

Although he is still extremely reckless, he gives people a feeling of being unreasonable and unstoppable.

Could it be that……

"Were they accumulating experience in tower diving and killing people?"

Xiye couldn't help but have this strange thought.

If Yuan Shen knew what he was thinking, he would just sneer disdainfully.

No one knows tower diving better than me!!!

(End of this chapter)