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Chapter 441 A brainless, reckless chicken! A brave and resourceful pig!

"I wonder which of the two teachers favors more?"

Wang Ji brought the topic back to the competition.

I'd say it's a 50/50 chance.

Miller laughed it off, knowing he was dealing with both sides, so he tried to smooth things over so as not to offend either. This way, he could capitalize on whoever won the championship.

The doll shared the same view.

"It's really hard to say. The two teams have had their share of wins and losses back in China, and both performed exceptionally well in the World Championship. If you insist on asking me who is stronger, I honestly can't say."

"That makes some sense, but I still have more faith in EDG!"

Wang Jiji wasn't afraid of offending IG fans and unequivocally supported Wang Yao, saying, "It's not about who's stronger, it's just my personal feeling!"

"I just have more faith in Kshine's performance in crucial moments, after all, he has never let us down!!"

The three then broadcast the data for both sides, which were roughly the same, with each side having its own wins and losses.

In terms of offensive statistics, IG is even slightly ahead, but in terms of ward placement, EDG is far ahead.

This perfectly illustrates the styles and characteristics of the two teams.

IG is all about mindless recklessness, mindless fighting, and mindless aggression!
EDG is not averse to fighting with their opponents, but they have not abandoned strategic gameplay either.

To put it simply, IG is brainless, while EDG is smart!
With a crisp sound, the director switched the camera directly to the two teams' draft picks.

"The draw results show that IG won, but IG chose the red side, and EDG will be on the blue side."

Miller looked quite surprised.

Wang quickly explained, "IG's champion pool is very suitable for the current version, so they probably want to find better counter-picks."

EDG immediately banned Rakan.

Baolan's current situation is that Rakan is indeed at the world champion level, but he only has this one champion. His other champions are rather underwhelming.

That's exactly what Maokai is targeting.

IG then banned Akali.

For the second ban, EDG chose to ban Camille, while IG banned Irelia.

In the last ban slot, EDG proactively banned Tahm Kench, while IG opted to ban Taliyah.

"Oh, EDG immediately picked Xin Zhao? Xin Zhao is indeed the best jungler choice in the current version in terms of all aspects. As for Aatrox, although this champion is very strong, EDG obviously has a way to deal with him."

IG then immediately secured the top and support duo of Aatrox and Alistar.

EDG locked in the classic bot lane duo of Braum and Lucian in the 2nd and 3rd picks!
Braum counters all aggressive hard supports, while Lucian can effectively prevent IG from picking Kai'Sa, Xayah, or Sivir, as these champions cannot beat Lucian in lane.

IG was also straightforward and picked Kai'Sa!

"It seems IG's bot lane is still going to play defensively." Miller understood this after just one glance at the bot lane duo.

IG is starting to rely on their bot lane to withstand pressure again, as they usually do.

Kai'Sa + Alistar can't beat Lucian + Braum.

They moved on to the second round of business development (BP).

IG still hasn't chosen their mid and jungle players, while EDG hasn't picked their mid and top laners yet. Both sides have started to develop their own strategies to counter IG's strategies!
IG chose to target the top lane, banning Swain and Urgot, while EDG chose to target the jungle, banning Lee Sin and Gragas.

IG then proactively chose Jayce.

EDG's last two picks were not too surprising, and they didn't pull out any groundbreaking strategies.

He picked Captain, and then he picked LeBlanc.

After much deliberation, IG chose Jarvan IV as their final pick.

Ultimately, the lineups for both sides were finalized.

EDG (blue side) fielded a team with Gangplank top, Xin Zhao jungle, LeBlanc mid, and Lucian and Braum bot lane.

The red team, IG, has Jayce in the top lane, Jarvan IV in the jungle, Aatrox in the mid lane, and Kai'Sa and Alistar in the bot lane.

"Oh? IG gave Jayce to the top lane? Does that mean they want TheShy to use his strong individual skills to gain an advantage in the lane?"

Miller immediately saw through IG's tactical design.

Prince Ning's selection of a prince clearly indicates his intention to cause a lot of trouble in the early stages!
The strategy is to relentlessly attack the upper half of the map.

Normally, it should be melee fighters fighting melee fighters, and ranged fighters fighting ranged fighters.

It's like IG sacrificed their mid-laner Song Yijin in order to force the top lane to gain an advantage!
"It's alright! EDG's bottom half is stronger, while IG's top half is stronger. It all depends on how well both teams perform in the match."

"I think both sides got the heroes they wanted with this lineup!"

"Now, all we need to do is quietly enjoy it!"

"Who will win the crucial first game and take the lead in the championship battle? Let's wait and see!"

"Don't worry about the level of gore in the matches... IG is the most gory team in the LPL. Although EDG's matches are not as gory as IG's, they are still among the top in the LPL league!"

"Most importantly! It's impossible for LPL teams to have a Shakespearean-style macro-management rhythm when they play against each other!"

The doll looked very pleased with itself.

This is not just him bragging.

It's fair to say that the LPL teams are just a bunch of amateurs fighting each other. The matches look exciting but are actually quite chaotic, unlike the well-organized style of the Korean teams.

But this thing is relative.

Anyone who's played games knows that the hardest people to kill are those who don't want to pressure their opponent in lane or try to get a solo kill.

League of Legends is somewhat similar to a fighting game, where the key is a player's ability to seize opportunities instantly.

Anyone who plays fighting games knows that if you want to attack, suppress, and pin your opponent against a wall, they can also find an opportunity to counterattack.

In other words, while looking for opportunities, players are also exposing themselves to their opponents, giving them a chance!
and so.

LPL teams often engage in chaotic battles, which can easily be perceived as a "clash of weak teams."

Because some 'basic' mistakes may occur in a chaotic situation, but as the saying goes, if you want to find an opportunity, you must bear the risk of being countered.

The Korean team plays a macro-management style; they don't even look for opportunities to engage in team fights. Or rather, unless they are forced to, the Korean team will never engage in team fights they are not confident of winning.

If players stop short of each other on the field, then it looks like there's a certain 'method' involved.

However, the South Korean team's approach is more suited to cup competitions. After all, the South Koreans' strategy of avoiding direct confrontation and focusing on strategic play is essentially about minimizing mistakes and waiting for others to make them.

This can also be seen in team sports such as basketball and football.

Teams that favor offense often have impressive stats during the regular season, but they tend to falter in the playoffs.

Don't even mention the Golden State Warriors. While they have the best offensive efficiency in the league, their defensive efficiency is also among the top five.

This isn't some terrible defense that everyone would stab at; it's just that their offensive efficiency is so insane that people subconsciously overlook how good their defense is as well.

Just like how Xiang Yu is often associated with a humanoid Gundam, whose martial prowess is unparalleled throughout history, his extraordinary personal strength makes people subconsciously overlook his talent in managing and commanding troops.

"Anyway, no matter who wins in the end, the championship will belong to our LPL region! So everyone should just watch the game with an appreciative attitude."

Miller then added a fitting comment.

Amidst gasps and screams from the audience, the scenery of Summoner's Rift was revealed to them!
"Based on the two teams' usual tactics, IG will most likely focus on the top half of the map, while EDG will most likely try a 4-man gank on the bottom lane. However, the specifics will depend on how the two teams perform in the match."

"Huh? What's EDG and IG doing here?!"

Before Miller could finish speaking, Wang Ji exclaimed, drawing everyone's attention!

It turns out, during the competition.

After purchasing their starting items, both EDG and IG immediately grouped up and charged towards the top lane!
It was as if the two sides had agreed to it beforehand.

"Does this mean we're going to have a level 1 team fight?"

Both sides had a clear intention: to control vision in the top lane bushes!

However, EDG's strategy was to protect the captain, while IG's was to facilitate Jayce's attack!

A level 1 Captain is decent against some melee heroes, since a level 1 Captain can learn the Barrel skill and constantly refresh the Fiery Blade Technique, making it difficult for most warriors to defeat him.

But against a long-range champion like Jayce, a level 1 Gangplank doesn't even deserve much experience.

There's a formula for Jayce to counter a level 1 weak melee champion like Gangplank: use his range to take control of the lane bushes right from the start, then push him out of the experience zone.

This will create a slow push in the top lane, and the timing is perfect so that the minion wave in the top lane will be stuck inside the turret around the 3-minute mark.

At this point, Jayce is usually level 3, while the pressured side is only level 1. Even if the jungler comes to counter-gank, the top lane can't win a 2v2 fight, since Jayce has two level 3 players.

There's a level 3 top laner and a level 1 top laner over there. Even if they force a 1-for-1 trade under the tower, they'll still lose.

If you die, you can't gain experience under the tower, and the loss of minion waves is irreparable.

Even if it's two against one, and the top laner makes a mistake while diving the tower and loses one of their own due to a level 1 top laner, the other side still doesn't lose.

A crucial aspect of this playstyle is securing vision of the top lane bushes. After all, Jayce needs to constantly move in and out of the bushes to draw minion aggro when pushing across the minion wave.

This explains why both sides headed towards the top lane immediately, clearly aiming to gain vision control of the bushes.

"Tianye, let's not go any further. Let's crouch in the bushes near us and see if they'll take the bait," Wang Yao said.

There are three clumps of grass along the wall on the top lane: one near the blue team, one near the red team, and the other is right in the middle.

If both sides come out of the fountain immediately and their movement speeds are roughly the same, they will definitely meet in the bush in the middle. Wang Yao's idea is to ambush them.

As can be seen from the map, the EDG team stopped when they reached the edge of the bushes closer to their own side.

The IG players immediately rushed into the bush near the center, with the support Alistar leading the way.

"Huh? The enemy didn't come to the top lane to contest my vision?" Baolan seemed quite surprised.

"That's normal. Who would have thought we'd mobilize our entire army?" Ning Wang chuckled. "Let's hurry back. Damn it, I don't want to get ambushed in the jungle."

After taking two steps forward, the Minotaur immediately placed a vision point in the direction of the enemy!
As a result, Baolan was so scared that he peed his pants.

With a single glance, all five members of EDG appeared in his field of vision.

"Fuck!"

Before he could react, Braum had already used his Q skill "Winter's Bite" to throw a brick that hit him, applying a slow and a passive effect at the same time, and then started walking towards him!

"They've run into each other! Alistar got caught out first, how will IG handle this?"

"Should we sell them? IG's lineup is too weak at level 1."

Heroes like Prince, Alistar, and Aatrox are incredibly weak at level 1, mainly because these heroes need to coordinate their skills to provide support while dealing damage themselves.

For example, Alistar needs to use the WQ combo to reliably initiate a control attack, the same applies to Jarvan IV, and Aatrox also needs to use E in conjunction with Q to improve the hit rate of his skills.

The Minotaur suddenly became the target of concentrated fire.

Lucian lands a basic attack followed by his Q, "Piercing Light".

Why is Lucian considered Braum's best partner? Braum's passive requires a total of 4 stacks to trigger the stun effect.

Lucian can fire two shots instantly once his passive is triggered after he uses a skill.

The bull was immediately stunned and remained motionless.

LeBlanc is also amazing; she instantly learns her E skill to supplement subsequent crowd control.

On the other hand, IG didn't really have many options.

Don't be fooled by Aatrox's Q1 that knocked up three EDG players with its outer edge range; Aatrox didn't dare to move forward at all, treating Braum like a plague.

The rest of the IG players are pretty much the same.

There's no way to save them; once Braum applies his passive, they're doomed.

The Minotaur still had a sliver of hope, but Kai'Sa gave him a heal, helping him recover some health. After regaining mobility, he was able to use Flash to create distance.

Baolan chose to use Q in place first, thinking of knocking Braum up to trigger "Aftershock", so that he could gain high armor and magic resistance and then flash to create distance. This idea was not wrong.

The problem is that he got shown up.

Meiko is very detail-oriented. Braum did indeed move forward immediately, intending to auto-attack to deal damage, and also to see if any clueless players from IG would come close to apply another passive to him.

But when he saw the other members of IG cowering behind, he immediately turned around and took two steps. It was this turn that prevented Alistar from knocking him away.

Not only did the "aftershock" fail to trigger, but it also caused a series of kneeling and kowtowing incidents, giving EDG time to focus their attacks on them.

"Huh? What's Baolan doing here?"

The child was dumbfounded. The audience didn't understand the contestant's thoughts. From the scene alone, it looked like the bull was performing a series of "Happy New Year, everyone!" and kowtowing on the spot.

At that moment, the online comments exploded.

"Hilarious! As expected of you, Princess Blue!"

"Suddenly I feel a little sorry for Jack. There seems to be a reason why he answered Q."

"No, it's him, hahaha."

"I was thinking there are still several months until the New Year, why is Princess Lan sending New Year's greetings so early?"

In the chaos, LeBlanc's basic attack dealt enough damage to secure the kill.

First Blood!

First blood secured!!
Wang Yao was overjoyed, "We're taking off!"

"Wow! Kshine got the first blood! Wow! IG suffered a huge loss in this wave, run!"

Braum was also decisive, chasing forward directly. When his skills were ready, he used Q to throw a brick, aiming directly at Aatrox.

To prevent himself from being left behind, Song Yijin had no choice but to reluctantly give up his Flash ability.

EDG finally gave up!
Wang Yao immediately returned to the city and converted the 400 gold from this blood bounty into his own killing ring, [Dark Seal]!
"There's something to this kill streak. If Kshine gets a few more kills, it seems like IG's lineup won't be able to do anything against LeBlanc."

IG doesn't have reliable crowd control, so they can't effectively limit LeBlanc.

"The main problem is that Aatrox's Flash is gone, which is not good news."

Miller also pointed out the key point.

"Perhaps the only good news for Rookie is that LeBlanc learns E skill at level 1, so LeBlanc can't suppress him, and Aatrox can smoothly transition to level 3."

After returning to base to replenish supplies, I went back to lane just as the minion wave spawned.

Wang Yao even cheekily showed off IG's team logo dog tag.

The mid lane is different from the top lane. There are no bushes in the mid lane. If Wang Yao is playing LeBlanc in the top lane, he can learn the E skill at level 1 and use the bushes to directly cross the minion wave to suppress the enemy.

But in the mid lane, playing like that makes you an easy target for minions to beat into a pulp.

He could only obediently stand behind the minions and farm minions.

At this moment, Xiaotian spoke up directly, "Brother Yao, should we gank mid lane?"

"You mean?"

“That’s right, you still have Ignite, so just start with E-Flash. I can learn Q at level two.” Xiaotian said.

“That works too.” Wang Yao thought for a moment and then nodded.

When playing Xin Zhao in the jungle, you must learn E at level 1, because the E skill provides additional attack speed and is also an AOE damage skill, which can effectively improve jungle clearing efficiency.

This is similar to why Prince Jarvan IV would definitely learn E at level 1, because Demacian Standard is not only an AOE skill, but also has an additional attack speed bonus.

A being faster means refreshing faster.

Zhao Xin, who was soloing the red buff, even used Smite to quickly reach level 2 and then immediately headed straight for the mid lane.

At this point, the first wave of three melee minions on the mid lane had not yet reached low health.

It can only be said that Xiaotian seized this opportunity very well, but unfortunately, it was because of the level 1 team fight that LeBlanc learned the E skill at level 1.

It was precisely because LeBlanc learned her E skill at level 1 that she posed no threat to Aatrox, which greatly lowered Aatrox's guard!
"Xiaotian! Xiaotian's position? Could it be... that EDG's attack came so quickly!"

Miller and the others gasped in surprise!

Xin Zhao had already entered the river bush near the bottom of the mid lane, and at this moment, Aatrox also began to use his Q skill [Darkin Blade] to try to use the outer circle of Q1 to finish off the three low-health melee minions!

Wang Yao was originally looking for an opportunity.

Aatrox's Q skill has a very slow casting animation, like doing gymnastics in place, so Aatrox without his E skill would seem particularly clumsy.

Without saying a word, LeBlanc immediately used her E-Flash to cross the minion wave and hit Aatrox, who was doing gymnastics in place!

"Holy crap, the enemy jungler is coming to mid!" Song Yijin's reaction was pretty quick!

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