Starting with Zaozi Ge, a dream lineup

Chapter 26: Continuing the Investigation
Inside EDG's training room.

"Mingkai, can you feel it? Jian Zihao is recovering; he's in incredibly good condition."

Even Abu, who is now the manager of the EDG club, came to watch the training match in person.

As the club's manager, he now oversees not only the League of Legends division but also other divisions such as PUBG and Dota.

The fact that this ordinary training match alarmed Abu already indicates Uzi's unusual behavior.

"Yes! He has indeed become stronger, even more so than before. He knows when to be firm and when to be soft."

If it were the previous Uzi, and he picked a combo like Tristana and Taric to face Vayne and Janna, he would definitely have pushed the lane in the first three levels.

At this point, you can calmly go to the bottom lane. Even if you can't get a kill, you can force someone to use Flash and Heal.

But in this game, Uzi directly hid in the backline, a style completely different from before, which was really baffling.

"Xiaogou's change in style has boosted the entire RNG team. Now their top, mid, and jungle players are sticking together, directly addressing RNG's last remaining weakness."

"Letme is really aggressive now. He was particularly fierce in the lane trades. Knowing that Xiangguo was camping top, I didn't dare to fight head-on."

Scout and A-Guang both shared their insights.

If we were to pinpoint any weaknesses in RNG's previous performance, they were quite obvious.

Anyone with a sound mind knows that RNG's playstyle is based on a four-protect-one strategy, and it remains fundamentally the same regardless of the variations.

RNG always relies on the advantage of the bottom lane to drive the other lanes.

At this point, the strategy is either to target the bottom lane and disrupt RNG's rhythm, or to eliminate Uzi, as this would give them a 70% chance of winning the game.

Aside from targeting Uzi, the rest is targeting Letme.

After a year of competition in S7, almost all teams know that RNG never protects the top lane.

As long as the Emperor picks a blue-collar tank that can initiate team fights, withstand pressure, and consume little gold, that's fine.

Under this consensus, as long as they want to suppress the development of the top laner, or even find a breakthrough by targeting Letme, defeating this RNG team would be a piece of cake.

"All right."

At this moment, Manager Abu interrupted the discussion and said directly:
"Uzi's advantage in this game was also due to our bot lane's problem. Picking Vayne and Janna was too weak, which naturally amplified the opponent's bot lane pressure. Next game, Xiaozhao and Meiko should pick some strong combinations and test Uzi's form."

Abu frowned, clearly dissatisfied with the chaotic state of EDG. Since he left, these guys had become increasingly unruly.

"Nofe, try a serious draft this time, and see exactly how much stronger RNG's bot lane has become."

Nofe understood what he meant: the draft was targeting Uzi's champion pool, which was easy enough; all the bans would be given to popular AD carries.

However, to see how much Uzi's strength has recovered, we still need to let him play Tristana. Just ban the Taric combo, forcing Ming to play a soft support, and we'll know.

"Next game, we'll ban Kog'Maw, Vayne, Xayah, Caitlyn, and Taric."

"Hmm? It seems we're on the red side. Let's replace Vayne with Kalista. I doubt Uzi will use Vayne in scrims."

"Scout, pick a champion with strong lane pressure this time, put more pressure on the bot lane, let's get Lucian."

"Oj8k!!"

Upon hearing that he could choose Lucius, Scout immediately broke into a happy smile.

In this S7, he had a unique feeling for Omaha. Even though he lost three games in a row and was sent home in the group stage, his joy at their first meeting remained unchanged.

Obama is like a poison, poisoning generation after generation of gifted young people.

In this Twisted Ardent Censer patch, top lane still prioritizes tanks.

If you pick other warrior heroes when facing the big bug, it will result in the warrior side's front line not being tanky enough in mid-to-late game team fights.

Against an ADC with explosive damage from the Incense Burner, a warrior will basically fall in a matter of seconds.

Iboy, a young player born in the 00s, is not only very strong, but also has incredibly fast reflexes.

In a previous match between RNG and EDG, Braum and Xiangguo were hiding in the bush in the top lane when Xiangguo's Sejuani's ultimate and Braum's ultimate were easily dodged by a Varus with no vision.

In the match between EDG and MAD, Iboy once again used Xayah to dodge Zoe's Q and Ezreal's R from a blind spot, and even managed to kill Zoe. There's always someone who can counter someone else, but when facing experienced AD carries, Iboy always seems to lose his way.

Without realizing it, they handed over the carry role they had been holding to someone else and started lagging behind.

After a 15-minute break, the second training match began immediately.

As the ban/pick phase progressed, Taric, Kalista, Xayah, Sivir, Jayce, and Galio were all banned.

"It seems like this is Abu's idea; he wants to test the waters with the puppy."

Seeing EDG targeting the bottom lane so aggressively, Feng Ge immediately understood that Abu was pulling the strings; nofe wouldn't dare to do something like that.

"Since we're going to give it a try, why not go all out in the bot lane this game?"

"Okay, get me either the robot or the Sun Maiden."

Hearing Feng Ge's tentative tone, Xiao Ming responded.

"We're still going with a top, mid, and jungle three-core strategy this game. How about Junze gives you Gnar? Can you handle it?"

"OK, I'm fine with it, even the Great Tree of Nar is okay."

The next moment, a Gnar icon appeared on the first floor of RNG.

EDG wasn't going to be outdone, and pulled out Cho'Gath again, but this time Clearlove chose to play Jarvan IV.

In the last game, Sejuani's damage output was too low, resulting in insufficient damage output when combined with other lanes, making the game extremely difficult.

This game, Scout should get Omniknight, and Jarvan IV, who is strong in the early game, is a perfect match.

"Little Tiger, Karma?"

"Row"

Sitting in the middle, Xiao Hu nodded. Since the other side was going to use force, they would use softness to overcome hardness.

Sejuani and Karma were also locked in by RNG, while EDG on the other side also picked Omniknight.

Upon seeing Karma appear, Abu's eyes lit up, and he smiled:

"Hey, RNG's got a new strategy going on. I bet this Karma is for Xiaohu."

"It should be support Karma, right?"

Nofe flipped through the tactics book and made an uncertain deduction: after all, Karma and Sejuani are too weak against Prince Oma.

"Plan remains unchanged, continue banning the remaining AD carries."

Abu pushed up his glasses and directed EDG to ban Caitlyn and Kog'Maw, while RNG banned Janna and Shen.

After nofe gave the order, EDG finally secured the powerful combination of Twitch and Lulu.

Meanwhile, Xiaoming and Li Luo on the other side picked up a robot and a small cannon, which looked even more aggressive than in the previous game.

That's not actually the case. Once the combination of Rat and Lulu reaches level 6, it's very difficult for them to get hooked.

Even if they manage to hook the enemy, the Barrier Rat, the Healing Lulu, and then their R and E combos won't be enough to deal damage to Blitzcrank and Tristana.

Everyone knows how strong Twitch is in a four-protect-one strategy, and with the strongest support item 'Lulu', it's even more terrifying.

Red team EDG
Bans: Kog'Maw, Kalista, Xayah, Caitlyn, Taric.

Top laner mouse: Cho'Gath
Mid laner Scout: Oba Ma
Jungler Clearlove: Prince

ADCIboy: Mouse
Support Meiko: Lulu

Blue side RNG
Bans: Sivir, Jayce, Galio, Orianna, Shen
Top laner Letme: Gnar

Mid laner xiaohu: Karma the Enlightened
Jungler mlxg: Sejuani

ADC Uzi: Tristana

Assist Ming: Robot
(End of this chapter)