Chapter 262-Xiaohu Three-piece Set, Void Kassadin
"Wow, RNG's rhythm is so fierce, and it was definitely premeditated, from Xiangguo's level 2 catching the mid lane, reducing the health and gaining lane control, to the TP fast attack of three catching one in the top, middle and jungle, the division of labor was clear, and the thinking was clear." Wawa said excitedly.
"It's so rare that IG actually gave away the first blood." Miller said with emotion.
"Yes, IG has rarely given away first blood this year. Among all the LPL teams, IG has the highest first blood rate and first tower rate. However, the first dragon control rate is very low because they usually choose to control the Rift Herald in the early stage, unless the first dragon is a Fire Dragon or an Earth Dragon."
Miller explained.
"I can only say that RNG, as a challenger, came well prepared today!"
"Hey, IG's bottom lane is also moving!" PDD noticed the unusual movement on the minimap with his sharp eyes.
The director immediately cut the camera to the bottom lane.
Because MLXG wasted some time on the level 3 gank, when he finished clearing the blue buff and only had one group of wild monsters left to reach level 3, Yuan Shen's excavator had already reached level .
When Gragas rushed to the top lane and threw a ward to Ice Girl to TP, Yuan Shen happened to be controlling the river crab and looking at whether there was any opportunity in the bottom lane.
When it comes to catching Uzi, Yuan Shen has his own unique set of experience.
As an old rival and teammate, he is very familiar with Uzi.
Uzi's strong laning ability and aggressive playing style make him particularly fond of pushing the line. He can often gain an advantage on the line with his sharp and delicate operations and open up a breakthrough for the team... provided that the opponent's jungler does not come.
If the opponent's jungler comes to target him, Uzi, who often pushes the line, will become a breakthrough point. This means that the jungler on Uzi's side often has to play around the bottom lane.
Many people say that this style of play is very toxic...
But in fact, no matter whether it is protecting the top lane, the middle lane, the bottom lane, or even a weird system of four protecting one jungler, as long as you can win the game, it is the correct way to play, no matter how toxic it is.
The key point is whether the lineup and version chosen by your team can be integrated with your team's playing style.
If you can't integrate, you must change your strategy and don't hang yourself on one tree.
If a team chooses a lineup that should obviously revolve around the top, mid and jungle, but insists on playing around the bottom lane... this cannot be blamed solely on a certain player, but can only be said that there is something wrong with the entire team's thinking.
Or maybe the team picked a core lineup for the bottom lane, but the bottom laner was killed at level 2, and was caught dead at level 3, forcing the jungler to go to the top lane to catch the tank...
This style of play is wrong.
During the spring season, RNG suffered a great loss and did not even make it to the semi-finals in the playoffs.
RNG's style changed a lot during the summer season, especially after Uzi and Xiangguo returned from the Olympics. They applied what they learned and IG's system to RNG, and improved it to make it more suitable for them.
They are all top professional players, and with the strongest brain like Mata, the current RNG is stronger than the original RNG in history.
The top, mid and jungle system is now also one of RNG's signature features.
When fighting in a team, the dog-selling tactic was implemented many times, and the effect was very good.
With two top-notch top and jungle players, Looper and Xiang Guo, plus Mata's roaming and command, it would be a waste for the current RNG team not to play top mid and jungle.
The key point is whether Uzi can stay timid and withstand the pressure of being left alone when the team plays in the mid and jungle.
"There has been some progress..." Yuan Shen showed a surprised expression.
With the golden combination of Jhin + Zyra, RNG's bottom lane rarely pushed the line, but instead steadily controlled the line and developed under the tower.
It seems that RNG has done a good job of communication within the team.
When the jungler shows up in the top lane, the bottom lane must be timid.
But this still failed to change Yuan Shen's determination to catch him.
Syndra + Titan, this alternative combination in the bottom lane, even Uzi has no experience in dealing with it.
The excavator tunneled through the wall and flashed directly to lift up Uzi's Jhin, while Titan and Syndra followed up with damage and control.
Titan's hook, passive, Syndra's [Weak Retreat], the connection between the moves is perfect. As long as Uzi is hit by one of these skills, he will have no room to operate.
"IG-Yuanshen (Void Burrower) killed RNG-Uzi (The Master of Life and Death)!!"
Although Jella tried hard to fight back, she still failed to replace the excavator. Yuan Shen escaped with low health and survived.
Inheriting the life-saving method from the ancestor Seven, coupled with Yuan Shen's precise damage calculation and operation, who else can be the number one in KDA except Yuan Shen?
Just four minutes into the game, the most watched players on both sides were killed.
Amid this violent and tit-for-tat atmosphere, there was enthusiastic applause from the audience.
Syndra is a famous lane bully in the mid lane. Like Clockwork, she is an evergreen hero that can be used in any version and is known as the ball-playing sisters.
Why is Syndra so strong?
Because she has the ability to cast spells while moving.
What is Move Casting?
As the name suggests, it means being able to cast spells while moving, doing two things at once.
The spellcasting skills of most heroes have a pre-casting swing and a post-casting swing. When using a skill, they will inevitably pause on the spot, which is impossible.
Only some skills of some heroes, such as Kaisa's Q, Riven's Q and E, can be cast while moving.
Syndra is the only one who can cast all her skills while moving.
Who can resist a lady with long legs?
With the characteristics of mobile casting and long arms, Syndra has become a well-deserved lane bully.
Every player who is proficient in Syndra can see that she is positioning and moving when she uses each skill.
You cannot predict or react to all of Syndra's skills based on the foreshadowing.
Coupled with his long arms and high-burst ultimate, Uzi is under a lot of pressure in laning phase.
Sindra?
Uzi is very familiar with this hero. When he switched to playing mid lane in S4, Syndra was still his signature hero.
But it was the first time in history that we faced the Syndra + Titan combination in the bottom lane.
This combination is too powerful. No matter if they are hooked by Titan or stunned by Syndra, as long as the two heroes control the connection perfectly, they can use a full set of skills. In the best case, they can use flash to avoid being killed, and in the worst case, they can ignite as a warning.
The laning phase was already a bit difficult, and Uzi was caught by Yuan Shen again. After Uzi resurrected and went online again, he felt tremendous pressure.
The angle and timing of Xiao Ming's hook were very tricky, which put Uzi under tremendous pressure in the laning phase.
He also assisted Uzi during the Olympics and paid special attention to Uzi's positioning.
It also came in handy at this time.
Fortunately, Mata is still in good shape. With a few quick WQ combos, he summoned the Flower of Thorns to block Titan's hook.
Even so, Uzi's Jhin was badly exhausted by Syndra and was stunned several times by EQ. Within two minutes, all his blood bottles were used up.
"Incense pot, come on."
Mata commanded solemnly: "If you don't come, the excavator will come over the tower again."
If Jhin dies again, the bottom lane will collapse and the first blood tower will be lost.
The original plan was to continue to arrange TheShy's Xiangguo, but he had to change his mind and start moving towards the lower half.
Xiang Guo was so angry, but he knew that he couldn't blame his own bottom lane or Uzi.
If the team was laning normally, even if they were caught and killed by the jungler once, Uzi and Mata's laning abilities would be enough to stabilize the bottom lane and not cause this.
The problem lies in this anomaly.
Unless your strength is much higher, it is almost impossible to use a disadvantaged hero to suppress an advantageous hero.
Even TheShy, who used his signature Vladimir to face Zzitai's Ryze, was suppressed by dozens of knives after being countered.
On the other hand, even if Jack's laning ability is slightly inferior, when he gets a lane bully hero and the jungler kills the opponent once, he can naturally suppress Uzi.
Moreover, Syndra's reach, control, consumption, and terrifying burst ability after reaching level 6 are all black technologies that do not belong to the ADC food chain.
"RNG is in a bit of a tough spot." Miller analyzed: "As a core mage, Syndra's position is obviously different from LeBlanc. LeBlanc's position is to develop and ensure the late game, while Syndra's position is to extremely strengthen the suppression ability of the bottom lane."
Wawa nodded and said, "However, the reason why RNG's bottom lane is so disadvantaged is because of Yuan Shen's previous tower dive. After Jack got the assist money, he quickly made the Holy Grail, and he can consume and suppress the enemy without restraint."
Athena's Unholy Grail, commonly known as the Greater Grail, was changed into an auxiliary equipment in the S7 preseason.
Before this, the Holy Grail was the first big item that many mainstream mid-lane heroes must have. Its status was equivalent to the mana-sucking knife of the ADC. It had smooth and comprehensive attributes, including damage, mana recovery, and cooldown reduction.
"TheShy in the top lane, after being caught and killed, should also be, uh... what's going on?"
The director cut the camera back to the top lane, and Wawa was stunned for a moment.
After getting the heads in the first wave of kills, the vampire went home and made a burning gem.
In contrast, TheShy's Kassadin died and returned to the city, only regaining one Dark Seal.
With Doran's Shield + Burning Gem on one side and Corrosive Potion + Dark Seal on the other, the vampire's equipment is undoubtedly more advanced.
But the scene was completely the opposite.
Kassadin actually suppressed the vampire.
Not only did he lead by five or six in terms of last hits, but in terms of health, Kassadin had nearly 70% while Vampire only had half a bar of health.
"Yaer, what's going on?" PDD exclaimed, "Kassadin, who is only level 5 and out-equipped, can actually counterattack Vampire?!"
As mentioned before, Kassadin and Vampire can't suppress each other in the early stage.
The dividing point is level six.
After reaching level 6, Kassadin defeated the vampire in all aspects.
Void Stone (Passive): Kassadin's magic damage is reduced by 15%. Combined with the magic shield of the Q skill Void Sphere, Kassadin is not afraid of high-burst AP heroes, let alone the extremely weak vampire in the early stage.
The complete crushing in terms of damage and resistance, coupled with the fact that Vampire, a hero with no mana bar, frequently uses skills, will allow Kassadin to accumulate [Energy Pulse] very quickly.
If TheShy's Kassadin reaches level 6, it is understandable that PDD sees this scene.
But how did a level 5 vampire with outdated equipment do it?
EMMMM…
While PDD was lost in thought, Kassadin reached level six on the scene, accompanied by the upgrade special effects.
The ultimate skill [Void Walk], Kassadin learns and uses it instantly, and hits the face of the vampire.
REAW——
A set of extremely fast combos triggered thunder, knocking away 30% of the vampire's health and forcing him out of the blood pool.
The vampire who regained his human form from the blood pool only had time to use his red rage Q to suck Kassadin, but he was also hit by Kassadin's Q.
E for vampire?
Dare not let go.
A fully charged E consumes 10% of your health...
The current situation is tantamount to suicide.
Moreover, the damage of the E skill has no effect on Kassadin, but his own blood loss is more serious.
This is another reason why Kassadin can become the vampire's biological father.
Seeing that his health was only 20% left, Looper felt like giving up.
He really appreciated TheShy's laning strength.
Perhaps he is slightly inferior to Yuan Shen in terms of awareness and operation, but his unparalleled offensiveness and aggressiveness make him more threatening than Yuan Shen.
However, the military line was about to be pushed over by Kassadin, and he did not teleport this time. If he returned to the city, he would lose two waves of soldiers, which was equivalent to giving up the first blood advantage.
It was such a loss, Looper was unwilling to accept it.
“Where is Yuanshen now?” Looper asked.
"In the lower zone, I was just hit by his Q of underground." Xiang Guo said.
After confirming the position of the enemy jungler, Looper calculated and found that when the minion line reached the tower, his health pool would probably be almost ready. In addition, he still had flash, so he thought he could take advantage of the situation.
Seeing Looper lingering under the tower and refusing to leave, TheShy suddenly used his skills while last-hitting and stacked his [Energy Pulse].
At the same time, when walking into the grass, he pressed R on the spot to renew the passive of [Void Walking] and stacked two layers of buff.
Looper was very careful to keep a 500-yard distance from Kassadin. However, he did not notice the sudden drop in Kassadin's mana. He did not pay attention to the details and did not realize TheShy's killing intent, so...
"he died."
When the soldiers entered the tower, Yuan Shen just took a look and made this assertion.
The next moment, as if he heard Yuan Shen's words, Kassadin, who was far outside the 500-yard range of his ultimate, crossed the distance of the Summoner's Rift like a phantom ghost, broke through the limit of the skill distance, sat on the vampire, and moved on his own.
Purple void energy poured out in just a blink of an eye.
Even the director didn't have time to keep up with the camera, and in a daze, heads exploded.
“IG-TheShy (Voidwalker) killed RNG-Looper (Crimson Reaper)!!!”
The vampire died.
Looper: "???"
In the end what happened? ?
Even the victim, Looper, was unable to figure out the whole process, let alone the director who was stunned by the show, and the audience who were watching the show in front of the screen.
The slow-motion replay video was quickly played back.
The soldiers entered the tower, and Looper's vampire couldn't wait to use Q to suck some blood to increase his own health.
TheShy Kassadin suddenly jumped up, taking advantage of the stiffness before the skill.
[Walking in the Void] After crossing the maximum distance of 500 yards, a golden light flashed, and it moved a distance again and sat on the vampire.
EAW took action, triggering the decree of the Thunder Lord.
The extremely fast combo speed meant that Looper had no time to use up his blood pool and flash, and he died suddenly.
"???"
"???"
"What is this, R flash?"
"This hero with a JB face can also R flash?"
"IG refreshed my common sense again and developed a new operation?"
"Oh my god, with this skill, my 3,000-game JB Face specialization is going to take off, and I'll be the King tonight!!"
"I was originally impressed by TheShy's performance, but when I saw you guys calling me JB face, I instantly died of laughter on the sofa."
“+1, newbie asking, why is Kassadin called JB face?”
"You'll know if you look at Kassadin's original painting once."
"Naisi!!"
Yuan Shen was very happy.
Kassadin's R flash technique was learned by TheShy when he was discussing it with Rookie.
This technique was first developed and first appeared in the public eye at the end of 2016 (S7 preseason), in a Rank game broadcast by Wei Shen.
As soon as this operation came out, the GIF image was immediately widely circulated, causing an uproar. Later, it was known to the majority of players, and like Lee Sin's roundhouse kick, it quickly became a skill that players must practice if they want to play Kassadin well.
It’s actually very simple to learn how to use Kassadin’s R flash.
The flash distance is 550 yards, Kassadin's ultimate is 500 yards, and the R flash has a total distance of 1050 yards.
Calculate the distance, place the mouse anywhere within 500 yards and 1050 yards away, and press R and flash at the same time to succeed.
Kassadin's R skill will automatically enlarge the displacement in that direction even if your mouse is outside the range of the ultimate skill.
In comparison, the Stoneman's R skill, which has a similar effect, is different. The Stoneman will automatically walk into the range of R and then release the R skill.
Based on this game mechanism, Kassadin can use R flash, but Malphite cannot.
Just like the principle of magic, it’s no big deal after the reveal.
But before the principle was revealed, few people could figure out how this was done.
After the game ended, many players opened a custom game to try Kassadin's R flash, but they were completely unable to get it right and ended up with nothing.
Two flowers bloom, one branch each.
At this point, with the help of slow motion, the audience and commentators saw the process clearly, but the victim, Looper, was still a little confused.
"How did he die?" Mata asked.
"It seems to be... R flash?" Looper asked hesitantly.
"Kassadin can also use R to flash?" Mata raised his eyebrows in surprise, and then said sternly: "But this is not the reason why you were killed. You got the first blood, how could the game turn out like this? You were killed by a tower dive..."
Mata's style has always been very strict. Last year in VG, he was not respected and angrily took out the one-handed support Jayce.
Be strict with others and also with yourself.
"I'm sorry, it's my bad." Looper admitted his mistake decisively.
This time he was killed by a tower dive, and it wasn't simply because of Kassadin's R flash skill.
Previously, his health was suppressed in the lane, his troops were pushed back, and Kassadin was the first to steal level 6. All these factors, plus the unexpected R flash, led to this outrageous solo kill under the tower.
Why did it become like this?
Looper knows why...
The guy across from me is all too familiar with vampires.
TheShy knows all the details, such as how to exchange blood with vampire, when to use Red Rage Q, how much distance can Scarlet Dash close...
In the 1v1 laning, Looper's Red Rage Q didn't hit Kassadin at all, but instead he himself was severely consumed by Kassadin's Q skill.
"Ah..." Looper sighed.
The vampire suffered a huge loss after being killed alone in this wave.
The two waves of soldiers under the tower were wiped out directly, and when he resurrected and went online again, he could only kill about two or three soldiers from the third wave at most.
Not only did he give up the first blood advantage, he also gave it back politely.
If you only look at the results without paying attention to the process, Looper will want to slap himself.
Do I have such a dish...
He was a little skeptical about life. The money on the vampire was only enough to buy a codex. After returning to the line, Looper's face turned black when he saw Kassadin's Explosive Wand + Blue Crystal equipment.
Kassadin's equipment route is to first produce the Tear of the Goddess, then transform it into the Catalyst Stone and the Staff of Time. After the Goddess is fully stacked in the mid-term, he can directly make it into the [Staff of the Seraph]. He is an assassin hero with a very long development cycle and is unstoppable in the late stage.
TheShy neither acts as a goddess nor makes a meal box, but directly takes out the explosive wand?
Kassadin, with his explosive wand naked, quickly showed Looper what unreasonableness meant.
Even if the vampire is very cautious and stands outside the 500-yard range, Kassadin's E skill passive is accumulated and he can directly use REQAW.
Kassadin crossed the line of soldiers and chased the vampire all the way back to the tower. On the upper lane, the second R skill was activated, forcing out the vampire's blood pool again.
After crossing the line of soldiers to exchange a set of blood, Kassadin's health was still 70%, while the ghost had less than 30% left.
There's no way, Kassadin is the vampire's biological father.
Seeing TheShy pushing the line again with a murderous look on his face, Looper couldn't sit still anymore.
"How do you play this?"
When Looper was about to call the jungler over, Mata in the bottom lane started giving commands again.
"The excavator is in the bottom lane, trying to cross the tower again. Oh my god, the opponent is too aggressive. Xiangguo, come here!"
"Coming right up! Hold on for a minute, I'll kill some wild monsters and level up.
Xiang Guo's fasting style of play helped the team gain advantages in the middle and top lanes for a time, but now, the glitz has faded and the drawbacks have emerged.
His barrel level is far behind, the excavator is already level six, but he is not yet at level six.
Without his ultimate, Gragas seriously lacks in deterrence.
Seeing this, Looper could only shut up and choose to bear the pressure of the laning phase by himself.
The top laner being sacrificed by the team has experienced this many times since he came to LPL, and it has become a habit.
You can only rely on yourself this time.
At level 6, I should be able to counterattack under the tower, right?
It turns out that Looper was overthinking it.
When the troops entered the tower, the vampire relied on drugs and the passive of Doran's Shield to restore his health to about 50%, and was still within the killing line of Kassadin's set of skills.
The moment Kassadin made the starting action of his R skill, Looper quickly performed the EW combo.
Use E to charge and counterattack, take the damage from Kassadin's R, let the defensive tower focus on Kassadin, and then use W to avoid Kassadin's subsequent E and W.
This is the scenario Looper envisioned.
The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.
The release position of Kassadin's R just missed the vampire by a hair's breadth and didn't hit him at all.
One R tricked out the vampire's EW.
W consumes 20% of current health, and E consumes 10% of maximum health at full strength.
The vampire's health level was already unhealthy, and now it's even lower.
But this is not the end of the story.
[Void Stone (Passive)] not only reduces magic damage by 15%, but also ignores the collision volume of units.
TheShy flexibly used Kassadin's passive and walked behind his own soldiers when Vampire was charging E.
Many players who have never played Vampire don’t know that Vampire’s E skill can be blocked by enemy units.
In team battles, a tank hero standing between the vampire and his own ADC can block most of the damage from the vampire's E skill for the ADC.
W missed, E missed, Looper was extremely embarrassed as he had destroyed so much of his health. At the same time, alarm bells rang in his heart. After the blood pool turned back into human form, he immediately flashed to create some distance and ran towards the second tower.
By triggering the vampire's flash and driving him away, the advantage gained is already big enough.
If Kassadin continues to chase, he may indeed get a kill, but he may also be ambushed by Gragas and give away a kill.
Don't chase a desperate enemy. This sentence also applies to the game League of Legends.
If it were most top laners, they would probably stop while they can.
But TheShy is not.
His offensiveness was fully demonstrated at this time.
Yuan Shen was putting pressure on the bottom lane, and he took the time to switch screen and take a look at the top lane. In just two seconds, he gave TheShy a reassurance.
"Go after me with confidence."
Upon hearing this, TheShy completely let down his guard and began to chase Kassadin.
Yuan Shen knew very well that if he didn’t chase this wave, he would not be TheShy.
This was when facing the Troll and Tsar ganks. He first made perfect use of Swiftness to accelerate and recover health to create distance and escape, and then turned around and fought two people at once and killed them both by crossing the tower. He was a peerless killer.
This wave of suggestions was entirely due to his clear and quick thinking. In just a short moment, he figured out a lot of details.
Many people learn to cut screen from Faker and think they can do it very quickly and look very cool.
Actually...
Others are collecting information and analyzing the game, what are you doing?
Finger cramps?
In this wave, he is putting pressure on the bottom lane. With Mata's awareness and sense of smell, he will most likely command Xiang Guo to defend...
Even if we take a step back and say that if the jungler is next to him, the vampire's reaction would not have to be so cowardly. The right choice would be to defend and fight back.
The chances of winning this time are as high as 90%, so it's definitely worth a gamble.
"Old Song, keep an eye on Bingnv."
After Yuan Shen finished speaking, TheShy in the top lane felt more relieved. He controlled Kassadin's second R to close the distance, chasing all the way, waiting for the next R to cool down.
Looper was a little desperate. He turned around and threw out QR, and was hit by Kassadin's Q skill at the same time.
When the vampire was about to reach the range of the second tower, the third R skill was ready, Kassadin got in the face again, and EAWA triggered Thunder.
Immediately, he fired his last [Void Sphere] and left without looking back.
However, at this moment, the vampire's second stage R was triggered, restoring a small amount of health, allowing the vampire to survive with a sliver of health and return to the second tower.
Just when everyone, including Looper, thought that TheShy miscalculated the damage and the vampire survived...
The vampire, with only a shred of blood left, died suddenly.
Looper's face was gloomy. He opened the death replay panel and saw a thread of the culprit who killed him violently.
Corruption Potion.
The passive effect of this supply, [Touch of Corruption], is that while taking the drug, the hero's damaging skills and attacks will burn the enemy hero, causing continuous magic damage for 3 seconds.
No one could have imagined that Kassadin, who started with a 0/1 and gave away the first blood, would kill the vampire twice in a row by crossing the tower just a few minutes later.
It would have been fine if they had crossed the first tower, but they actually crossed to the second tower...
Is this a joke?
Anyone with a little knowledge of the game knows that the enemy Kassadin should not get a kill.
His weakness in the early and middle stages is his biggest weakness.
This hero can't get up.
And now, when a Kassadin is in a weak early and mid-game, he doesn't rely on roaming to get kills, but relies on solo kills in the lane...
Anyone with a little gaming experience knows that this Kassadin is about to take off.
Kassadin recognized that Counter Vampire was one thing.
However, how many players can achieve such results even after getting an advantageous position and being caught in a trap in the early stage?
"It's terrible. Give Looper some incense."
"RNG's BP made me laugh to death. Do you really think anyone can play Vampire?"
"What will happen when TheShy gets his dad's hero?"
"TheShy's laning ability now seems to be almost as good as Yuan Shen's!"
"Nonsense, I'd be fine if I had the world's top laner as my teacher!"
Anyone can see that it is no longer possible to play with the Cave-sucking Ghost on the road.
At the same time, the two sides also started fighting in the bottom lane.
The soldiers entered the tower and Xiao Ming completed a beautiful first move.
Titan faced Uzi's Jhin, and when Mata thought he was going to attack his ADC first, he placed the mouse in front of Uzi, ready to block the hook at any time. Unexpectedly, Titan suddenly used his ultimate on him, and then flashed to get close to Uzi.
boom!
Both of them were knocked away, and Titan immediately followed up with AQ and ignited.
The combination of black technology routines once again showed its power.
While Uzi was being controlled, Syndra used QEW and instantly killed the squishy Jhin.
Yuan Shen used the excavator to flash and lifted up Jyra, and Syndra's ultimate skill, Energy Drain, was thrown out directly.
Jella's health dropped rapidly, and at this time, Xiangguo's Gragas finally arrived.
He threw out his ultimate skill [Exploding Gragas], blowing up the excavator away from his ADC, creating space for Jyra to counterattack, and used E flash to leave the Titan who was holding the tower behind.
In the end, all three members of RNG's bottom lane were killed, while only Titan was killed in IG.
Yuan Shen, escaped with only a sliver of health left...
One for three!
With the defense tower behind him, he ended up suffering a loss.
This came as a surprise to many people.
"Xiao Ming's first move was brilliant." Miller praised: "He killed Jhin without him using any skills. Xiaohu's role in this small-scale teamfight was just to absorb skills... I have to say, the younger generation always pushes the older generation forward!"
Miller's words were somewhat ironic.
Even though it was trash talk before the game, what MATA said about Ming being only good among Chinese support players and nothing compared to Korean players was still a bit off-putting to him, a veteran commentator of the LPL.
"Xiang Guo arrived a step late because he didn't clear the jungle before, so he lost a lot of experience and rhythm." PDD analyzed: "But if Gragas hadn't upgraded to level 6, they wouldn't even be able to win 2 for 3, so it can't be said to be Xiang Guo's fault."
"Nice! Xiao Ming was so awesome today!" Yuan Shen praised with a smile.
Not only was it this beautiful first move of crossing the tower, but in the previous laning phase, he occasionally observed the bottom lane and found that Xiao Ming's handling of some laning phases was slightly better than Mata's.
For example, the control of the bottom lane vision makes Yuan Shen very comfortable.
It lit up the opponent's jungle area and cleared Mata's vision, allowing the entire team to take the initiative in the battle in the lower half.
"Have I been doing very well recently?" Xiao Ming said jokingly, and then said: "Mata is not famous for his operation. He is good at commanding the operation rhythm of the entire team. If he wants to take the overall situation into consideration, I am confident that I can do better than him in handling the details of the laning phase."
"That's amazing. You're worthy of being my LPL's M-named support." Yuan Shen said half-jokingly and half-sincerly.
As the boss of IG, he feels very pleased to see so many new players grow up.
Meiko and Ming were once considered the successors of the LPL "M" support.
The so-called "M"-named supports started with the two top supports, Mdalife and Mata.
On the scene, IG's top and middle lanes were once in a rhythm disadvantage, and TheShy even gave away the first blood.
This must be attributed to RNG's pre-match design and Xiang Guo's unique fasting style, which opened up a breakthrough for the team.
What did IG rely on to turn the situation around?
"hard power."
PDD said: "IG saved the situation with their hard power. In terms of tactical BP, their mage core bottom lane did work in the bottom lane. In terms of laning ability, I am still confused as to how TheShy used a 0/1 Kassadin to beat the Vladimir who got the first blood."
“Hahaha, I really don’t understand this.”
Miller smiled happily.
Wawa glanced at the middle lane and said in surprise: "The situation in RNG's middle lane doesn't seem to be very good."
The director's camera was directed to the middle lane, and it was seen that Xiaohu's Ice Girl was baptized by Lucian's sudden burst of Holy Lance. Even if she used E, she couldn't escape the range of Lucian's bullets. She had no choice but to use her ultimate to freeze herself and avoid the damage of the enemy's ultimate.
The current version of the Ice Maiden has not been revised yet, and her passive skill still consumes mana for free periodically, and her ultimate skill cannot restore her health. "
Therefore, for this version of Ice Girl, using R on herself during the laning phase is the least profitable thing to do, and this method will not be used unless it is absolutely necessary.
In other words, the pressure Xiaohu was under in the laning phase was so great that he had to resort to the worst possible strategy.
After the Ice Girl recovered from her ultimate, she was hit by Lucian's AQAEA burst. The Ice Girl had less than 20% of her health left and fled back to her tower.
At this moment, all the RNG fans at the scene exclaimed, and the director's camera was focused on Kassadin, who had rushed over from the top lane at some point and was only separated from the middle lane by a wall.
After Kassadin reached level 6, the most significant improvement was not in his combat power, but in his roaming ability.
The mid-lane player is very familiar with the hero Kassadin, and once Kassadin disappears, the warning is given quickly.
However, Looper is a top laner. Facing this unpopular top laner, due to inertia of thinking, he misjudged the time and speed of Kassadin's support to the middle lane.
When Looper was half a beat late in giving the signal, Kassadin had already [Walking in the Void] to climb over the wall and arrived under the middle tower.
Kassadin used EQ and left without looking back.
The magic power provided by the Exploding Wand and four layers of Dark Seal makes the skill damage of Kassadin with this violent out-fit much stronger than that of Kassadin with normal development equipment.
According to TheShy's damage calculation, the Ice Girl will definitely die with this amount of health.
But Xiaohu doesn’t know.
In a hurry, he subconsciously had a rough idea of Kassadin's damage at this point in time. After seeing Kassadin use his EQ skill, he instinctively felt that he would not die, so he used flash to create distance and avoid being chased by Kassadin.
however……
The Ice Girl flashed to create some distance, and [Void Sphere] followed closely behind her, accurately taking away the last bit of her health.
Xiaohu looked at the dim screen, his expression stiffened and he felt a little embarrassed.
Because, from the audience's God's perspective, this was undoubtedly a wave of "death flash" operations.
He seemed to be able to hear the laughter of the audience and the mockery of the trolls in the barrage, and his mentality was a little unbalanced.
The red is warm.
For some unknown reason, Xiaohu withdrew the parts of the push rod of the Hextech revolver he had just made, and instead made an Explorer's arm guard and a small codex (435 yuan).
When facing an AD output-type mid laner, there is nothing wrong with making arm guards first and then switching to Central Asia. It is a safe choice.
only……
This kind of equipment also abandons the possibility of opening a breakthrough for the team, and puts the pressure of winning or losing and carrying on to teammates.
If he didn't have a little bit of pride in being a "genius mid laner" in his heart, he really wanted to wear a pair of cloth shoes...
Xiaohu wiped the sweat off his hands and got back into the game.
After the Ice Girl's death, RNG fell into disadvantages on all three fronts.
In just over ten minutes, IG had already gained an economic lead of more than 2,000.
In the following games, IG continued to show their strong aggressiveness.
During the laning phase, under the triple suppression of equipment, level and heroes, TheShy used whatever operations he had to hit the vampire's TP.
Twelve minutes into the game, IG took advantage of a TP difference and launched a five-on-two attack.
Lucian, who gained lane control, rushed to the bottom lane first and placed a ward at the Stone Man in the lower jungle of the blue side, allowing Kassadin to TP down.
How could Jhin and Zyra, two squishy heroes, withstand the tower diving attack of these five big guys?
Xiaohu originally planned to TP to support the next tower, but when he saw how fast his teammates' health was dropping, he canceled the TP.
With this wave, there is no room for operation. It’s buy two get one free, it’s free.
The IG players tacitly gave the kills to TheShy, allowing Kassadin to get a double kill, and the record came to 5/1/0.
Even the 650g of the first blood tower was given to Kassadin alone.
"WDNMD, he really is the father on the road?"
"It's stable, it's stable. I've never seen Kassadin lose in a game where he's so strong."
"RNG's jungler's rhythm was okay, but the top and middle lanes were really blown away."
"It's fine in the top lane, but what happened to Xiaohu in the middle lane? He helped catch me once but ended up like this?"
"Dog Blow is making trouble again? Didn't Uzi get busted? Is Zaozi brother a non-stick pan?"
"Haha, don't talk to a really retard who can't understand."
The barrage of comments is endless, and Uzi is the most controversial player in LPL.
Being popular is one thing, but his playing style can easily make people call him a cancer to the team.
Yuan Shen's consistent stable performance and brilliant record since his debut have made him less controversial and he is recognized as a strong player.
Even so, there are still people criticizing him.
The bigger the stage and the more famous they are, the greater the mental pressure the professional players have to bear.
There are many players who are afraid and shrink back due to the mental pressure in crucial games, and choose to avoid mistakes rather than merit.
It's sticky and invisible, which is normal.
This is how Xiaohu's three-piece suit came about.
As long as you don't get killed alone, it's fine.
If you can get along in a team, just do it. Who doesn't know how to take advantage of the situation?
My teammates are strong and I am more arrogant.
Even a man like EasyHoon, who is known as the mid-lane defense tower, doesn’t he have a lot of fans?
RNG's bottom lane tower exploded, losing the first blood tower.
Immediately, IG's duo lane switched to the upper zone, took the Rift Herald, and pushed down the low-health upper tower at fourteen minutes.
……
The rhythm is messed up!
(End of this chapter)