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Chapter 267 Extreme Targeting, Utter Extermination! Lightning Strike!

"Oh my god, it seems like JDG's level 1 design backfired!" Doinb exclaimed in surprise.

"It's not just about having to use an extra Flash; the laning phase at the start of the game will definitely be affected, especially in the mid, jungle, and bot lanes!"

The top streamer's career relies on "game rhythm" for survival, and the most positive term left in his career is probably "having his own system", so the impact of this kind of start is even more evident.

As we all know, the most important thing to gain an advantage in the laning phase is the first three levels!

According to JDG's original lineup, the mid lane matchup should have been advantageous. In the early game, whether the Titan wanted to engage in jungle skirmishes or gank, he could use the mid lane priority to launch attacks.

However, both Cassiopeia and Lulu learned pure fighting skills at level one, which inevitably puts them at a disadvantage in the mid and bot lanes.

Especially Cassiopeia—because laning relies on her two short-cooldown skills Q and E, and at level 2, whether she levels up Q or E alone, she can't fight. She can only start laning after level 3, which will cause her to miss the best opportunity to suppress Sylas.

This will inevitably affect JDG's opening strategy and tactics.

When the minions arrived, he pressed TAB with his left hand to glance at the enemy's equipment bar.

He then realized that Sylas hadn't bought either Doran's Shield or Corrupting Potion as his starting items.

I still bought the Doran's Ring!

Sylas's short range makes him a poor choice against long-range champions like Cassiopeia with frequent sustained damage. Doran's Shield and Second Wind are clearly the best options for surviving the pressure.

"Is this some kind of contempt?!"

Thinking of this, Zuo Shou couldn't help but feel angry.

However, his anger was only momentary.
Minions spawn, jungle monsters appear.

The changes at the start of the game indirectly affected Kanavi's jungle clearing route, which also attracted the attention of the commentators.

"JDG's bot lane is probably helping the jungler with camouflage. But won't Nautilus be taking a lot of damage farming like that?"

While broadcasting the information, Guan Zeyuan said, "The last time Titan jungler appeared was 3353 days ago, in 2014 when PE played against OMG and it was picked by OMG_Pomelo Youzi. It's been a full 9 years!"

"However, actually back in patch 11.11 of Season 11, Nautilus's E skill underwent a specific damage buff for the jungle role, and it does indeed have jungle capabilities!"

"You can only say that this is Kanavi's hero pool. JDG is also a team with an unfathomably deep hero pool!"

Titan became popular in the MSI patch because his E skill was buffed in the pre-patch.

But that only applies to the "laning phase" aspect.

The change that truly allowed Titan to enter the jungle originated two years ago!
This is why other teams, including V5, haven't developed Titan for the jungle role—after all, there haven't been any recent changes in this area, and Ye Bo and Beryl are not junglers.

Besides its inherent role, the most important aspect of Titan jungle is naturally its ability to restrict the enemy's ability to secure kills.

Even if this isn't a global ban/pick version, this unconventional approach can still give JDG a head start in the ban/pick phase!

Kanavi's opening strategy also had a deeper meaning.

Neither jungler leveled up their normal jungle clearing skills at level one.

Although you can jungle even without learning skills as long as you are willing to use Smite, your performance and efficiency will definitely be greatly reduced.

Therefore, according to normal thinking, the best choice is to have the bot lane duo help with jungle clearing at level 1, and then quickly reach level 2 and enter normal jungle clearing mode.

But Kanavi doesn't play by the rules!

He had the bot lane duo delay their arrival to fake it, while he went to fight the red buff alone—and almost entirely farmed it with basic attacks!

This alone shows that Kanavi has genuinely practiced a lot of Titans and didn't just pick one without understanding it.

the reason is simple.

Titan's level 1 Q deals only 85 base damage, which is equivalent to at most 1.5 auto-attacks. It can save Titan 1-2 seconds of jungle clearing time.

However, once the Q skill is used for jungling, it will enter a cooldown period of more than ten seconds!

Conversely, although Titan's efficiency in clearing jungle camps with auto-attacks is not high even with Smite, he can use his Q skill to move around in the jungle after leveling up to level 2 to speed up and make up for some of the efficiency loss!
After leveling up to level 2, Titan immediately starts clearing the F6 camp. With his E skill, clearing the F6 camp is incredibly easy. Afterward, he immediately heads to the bottom half of the map.

We didn't farm the three wolves, which are easy to kill, nor did we farm the blue buff — because {the red buff + raptors route doesn't allow you to level up to level three by farming these two monsters, only the swamp frogs do}.

"Kanavi seems to be aiming for a quick level 3 gank on bot lane! His target should be Annie, who doesn't have Flash!"

From a God's-eye view, Kanavi's approach is even more profound.

Because if Titan ganks the bottom lane, Wukong will most likely counter-gank his top side of the map.

Kanavi was so certain because, strictly speaking, V5 only had an absolute advantage in the top lane matchup between Quesant and Ornn, and Wukong going to invade the top side of the map was the least risky move.

Kanavi believes that any jungler should choose this strategy that is most beneficial to themselves.

Therefore, he chose to clear out the two groups of monsters in the upper half of the area first.

Although it may cause the jungle route to become more convoluted and the jungle clearing efficiency to be slower, it also allows you to go to gank with minimal "jungle loss"!

This not only demonstrates his skillful handling of the jungle, but also showcases his unique playstyle.

In this respect alone, he's somewhat like Chovy in the jungle position.

One player plays like a mage carry no matter what they play, while the other plays like a jungle carry no matter what they play.

They can hardly accept that their personal development has been impaired!
At this point, V5 was in control of the bottom lane.

Neon Annie is one of the most suitable combinations for the new version, even more so than the new version of Yuumi, and her laning phase is already quite strong.

Both characters have incredibly long range. Zephyr's Q skill has a range of 700 yards, while Annie's range is 625 yards, only 25 yards shorter than Caitlyn's, making her almost second only to Caitlyn and Neeko in terms of laning poke frequency.

More importantly, Lulu learned the W skill for fighting at level 1, which is basically useless in lane, so the minion wave naturally moved over.

Of course, Beryl immediately went to the river to place wards.

However, due to the information gap in the Titan jungle, the jungle clearing speed exceeded their expectations—they failed to realize that even if the Titan was farming alone, even if he only used auto-attacks to jungle at level one, he could still reach level three at 2:47!
The bottom lane will normally take at least 3 minutes and 25 seconds to reach level 3.

Kanavi sneakily entered the Dragon Pit, used Hexflash to jump onto the tri-bush while hugging the wall, and activated a scan to confirm there was no vision!
With JDG's bot lane duo only at level two and Lulu unable to follow up with Flash, they had to push forward, immediately putting V5's bot lane on high alert.

"It might be someone who came!"

"Let's back out first."

The highly disciplined V5 duo initially retreated conservatively, while Titan quickly emerged from behind them.

The target was very clear: Annie, who hadn't used her Flash ability, was right behind them!
However, the foreshadowing laid at the first stage was eventually exposed.

If either Nautilus or Lulu had Flash, and they used it in conjunction with Nautilus to forcefully lock down Annie, it would almost certainly be a kill.

However, because the two retreated so decisively, Lulu, at level two, did not have her EQ ability to slow down enemies remotely. The only way she could stop them was for Titan to get close to them.

As soon as she entered the area, Annie immediately and clearly used [Incinerate] to stun Titan!

It's worth mentioning that one reason why support Annie has become mainstream is because supports primarily use E, and basically don't need to use Q and W skills.

Compared to mid-lane Annie, who has to use QW to push the lane and farm, she is often caught out by the opponent when her passive is open.

Support Annie can always keep her passive active!

Deft and Beryl clearly understood this combination well; instead of rushing forward, Zephyr took a step back and stood behind Annie, who hadn't flashed.
Titan immediately uses his hook after recovering from the stun, hooks Zeli, and then uses his stomp to slow her down!
Jinx followed up with W, and Lulu tried to follow up with Polymorph, but Zeli immediately used Cleanse.

At the same time, Annie is equipped with the Lava Shield.

Zeli's speed instantly soared to 625 yards!
In the current version of Zephyr, her passive skill is still: {damage can be converted into an opponent's shield, and when she gains a shield, she has an additional movement speed bonus} — while Annie's E skill already has a high burst speed boost.

The combination of the two equals an instantaneous "second gear start"!
"Zeli's Purify was instantly dispelled, he ran so fast! Lulu still can't use Polymorph!"

"However, although the V5 duo handled the situation calmly, Kanavi's unexpected variation still successfully helped the bot lane get Cleanse and gain a health advantage. Uh, he also helped push the lane."

When Guan Zeyuan saw Kanavi take down two of the ruler's soldiers, his tone suddenly became a little strange.

Doinb, unaware of Guan Zeyuan's feelings for the latter, wanted to show off his understanding of Titan and said to himself, "No problem! Titan junglers definitely need to gank all the time, farming is definitely not as useful as Wukong!"

"I know all too well that Titan is a champion who needs to constantly gank and control the tempo; he can't farm minions or jungle camps!"

Guan Zeyuan nodded cheerfully, "Indeed, indeed. Wait a minute! Kanavi seems to want to continue attacking the mid lane!"

Titan helped push the lane to make up for his lagging jungle experience, but did not return to his bottom side of the map.

Instead, they continued their advance towards the middle lane!

Kanavi understood this very well.

Although his understanding is certainly not as good as Doinb's, if a mid-laner can understand it, then a jungler can naturally understand it too.

If Titan and Monkey King are trading credits, then Monkey King is definitely stronger!
At this point, once the monkey sees the Titan below, he will most likely head to his own red buff area to invade the enemy jungle, which is the least risky and advantageous choice.

As a player specializing in monkeys, Kanavi knew that this hero's ganking ability before level six was very poor, and he would basically not gank before level six.

This will actually give him a window of opportunity to gank!

Just then, the camera switched to the mid lane, and he noticed that the enemy mid laner was positioned quite far forward, showing no signs of playing defensively despite the Titan having just appeared in the bottom lane.

Because of the skill points allocated at the start of the game, the mid laner did not gain any advantage in the first three levels. In fact, Sylas frequently pushed forward to trade blows, and the mid laner was even at a disadvantage in terms of health!
of course.

Once it reaches level three, the situation reverses from one level to the other.

Silas is unlikely to take the initiative again.

The reason Cassiopeia says Sylas is a counter is because her W [Poisonous Mist] has a 5-second {Binding} effect, which can disable Sylas's W and E skills!
Both W and E are movement skills!

It's not just E1 that's disabled, even E2 is disabled!
Furthermore, Sylas has difficulty killing Cassiopeia with a single combo. Blindly using E to close the gap will only result in Cassiopeia chasing him down and spitting on him all the way, with the possibility of being chased to death.

to be honest.

Sylas is almost always on the defensive when fighting Cassiopeia, rarely having the opportunity to launch an attack.

Therefore, Ye Bo changed his playstyle in this game, playing Sylas with a focus on Q, as only with a focus on Q could he barely manage to exchange health.

"Does it have eyes?" Kanavi, who was squatting in the riverbed grass, asked in confusion because the scanner was no longer working.

"No, he didn't go that way." Left Hand reiterated the information he had just reported. But Kanavi, watching Sylas's back-and-forth maneuvers, felt a sense of unease, as if the other was trying to entice him, yet he had no proof.
"Maybe we should forget about it."

Kanavi didn't want to squat for too long.

Although if Titan can hook Sylas, he can at least get a flash if he follows up with Cassiopeia's Earthshaker, and might even be able to get a kill from full health!

The problem is that if Titan initiates, Sylas can easily dodge with his E skill available.
But at this moment.

Seeing that Cassiopeia had used her Q to harass him, Sylas surprisingly used his E to dodge and dashed forward from the side!
"Pay the E!"

JDG's mid and jungle players were overjoyed. Left Hand didn't use his W skill immediately and pretended to retreat, while Titan walked out of the bush!

At the same time, the snake woman turned her head and spat out a poisonous mist that bound the ground!

Once enveloped in the poisonous fog, Sylas will be unable to use any of his three abilities, and his movement will be slowed down, making it difficult to dodge the hook.

But just as the poison mist was released—Sylas simultaneously unleashed his E2 Grab towards the enemy minions behind him!

Being shrouded in poisonous fog will indeed prevent you from using W and E.

However, poison mist is a projectile skill with a flight time, and it is only disabled.

Skills that are used prematurely cannot be interrupted!
Sylas used the minions to fly backward, just out of the poison mist range, and at the same time hid in the minions, leaving the Titan with no angle to try to hook.

"Let me help you push the lane."

Feeling a bit annoyed that he'd been ganked for nothing, Kanavi helped Cassiopeia push the minion wave twice with his E abilities, sending it into the tower before heading back to the bottom side of the map.

The characteristics of Sylas's main Q are also highlighted.

To be honest, a Sylas who maxes Q deals significantly more damage than one who maxes W, and his wave clear efficiency is also noticeably better.

The only downside is that Q is not reliable and has a much lower margin for error. It is also not as strong as W's recovery in prolonged battles and hard fights.

However, when used for pushing lanes, as long as you gather the minions together and let the Q skill hit its full two hits, the passive can quickly clear all the minions in three hits!
"The snake woman is already recalling. Titan doesn't seem to realize it yet!"

"Silas finished clearing the trail and is now tailing there!"

In fact, Kanavi's feeling was right.

His movement into the bushes was indeed caught by a ward at the river crossing, which is why Sylas dared to stand so arrogantly forward.

Of course, it's impossible for such a basic intelligence error to occur in the mid lane. Sylas definitely didn't go to that position, and by now, almost 4 minutes in, even if there was a ward at level 1, it would have already disappeared.

Those were the eyes the monkey had just lowered.

The goal, besides protecting the middle lane, is primarily to protect ourselves!
The monkey that started climbing up from the red side had already left its lower half of the map.

Xun had only gone halfway when he suddenly saw Titan appear in the bottom lane. Upon closer inspection, he saw that the opponent only had the red buff. He immediately and decisively returned the way he came and headed straight for the opponent's blue buff area!
He didn't know the opponent's jungle clearing route.

However, judging from the fact that the opponent didn't take the blue buff, it's not hard to tell that Titan's blue buff area must be much richer—although compared to the risk-free invasion of the upper half, going to the lower half would definitely increase the chances of something going wrong, and a normal person would go to the upper half.

However, V5 has always had a very clear tactical objective when it comes to their old rival JDG.

Target the jungler!

They knew very well that once Kanavi went cold, not only would the entire JDG team's rhythm slow down, but Kanavi himself would also lose his composure and make mistakes.

Therefore, Xun's goal is not to farm a certain number of jungle monsters.

Instead, we need to reduce how much jungle camps the opponent can farm!
Kanavi entered the Blue Zone and used the Blast Fruit to propel himself into the Three Wolves Pit, only to find it empty!
His heart skipped a beat.

"There's someone in the jungle, can you come over here?!"

Upon hearing the jungler's call, the bottom lane prepared to set off.

However, Jinx and Lulu's ability to keep enemies in place in the early game is clearly not very strong.

Left Hand, who had just returned home, originally wanted to wait for 20 gold to buy the {Red Crystal}, but seeing this, he could only grab the {Blue Crystal} which was 50 gold cheaper and teleport directly to the middle tower.

But Kanavi was now in a dilemma.

If the mid laner teleports in, it takes 4.5 seconds to land and at least 10 seconds to get to the jungle. If the bot lane comes over, it will take even longer, and the enemy bot lane will also come along.

He didn't know when the monkey entered the jungle. With Flash and W, the monkey was hard to catch—by the time his teammates arrived, the enemy might have already cleared his blue buff and run away!

Kanavi couldn't accept losing the Blue Buff for nothing. After thinking it over, he headed straight for the Blue Buff camp alone.

They turned into the bushes.

The low-health blue buff and the monkey swinging its club are right in front of you!

Kanavi seized the opportunity. He guessed that the monkey who was invading the jungle had probably already used Smite, so he used Smite to steal the buff!

"We got it! That Titan can still run away!"

"V5 didn't lose out too much this time. Monkey King still managed to steal three wolves, so there's probably no need to continue. Oh, Sylas!"

"Flash interrupted!!"

Titan didn't wait for his teammates, Sylas missed again, and Cassiopeia hadn't even landed yet. They knew they couldn't afford to stalemate with Wukong this time.

After Kanavi secured the buff, he first used his A skill on the monkey to trigger its passive {Imprisonment}, preventing the opponent from blocking with their body. Then, he adjusted his position by half a body length and decisively hooked the wall.

He was aiming at the side wall of his own second tower.

It can instantly create a distance of more than 1000 yards between itself and a monkey!

But just as the hook slipped from his grasp and the Titan froze in place, a golden light suddenly flashed from the wall!

Ye Bo was very familiar with the timing of Titan's hook.

Sylas dashes forward with his E, flashes over the wall, and then uses E2 to aim. The chain catches right when Titan's feet leave the ground, pulling him back to his original position!
A lightning strike from behind the wall!

Titan didn't have Flash, and his Q was interrupted again.

Ultimately, he could only be killed first by being ganged up on by the two!

"Before the bottom lane arrived, the Titan was killed by Wukong for first blood!" Guan Zeyuan said anxiously.

"In that case, JDG's bot lane can't go top either! The bot lane duo is coming too!"

Although JDG's bot lane had already entered the jungle, their own jungler was the first to fall, so they quickly turned back to the bot lane from the intersection to avoid being surrounded and killed instead.

Seeing this, the Cassiopeia who had landed via Teleport naturally didn't come over and went straight to push the newly arrived mid lane.

【see!!!】

[Is this just a freebie? They actually dared to go there themselves? Are they looking to eat leftovers?!]

[That's how they watch movies; they're unwilling to suffer even the slightest loss~]

[Isn't this a problem with the mid lane? I'm asking, why is our mid laner, who clearly has a lane advantage, nowhere to be found? Is he invisible?]

[Holy crap! What's going on here? Uncle Xun's here!]

In fact, this wave is not over yet.

"What are Xun and Master Ye up to?!"

Neither Sylas nor the monkey returned to base; instead, they continued to move towards the middle lane together.

Or to be more precise.

It's the direction of the "Mid Lane Second Tower"!

The monkey took a step forward to the middle of the tower, took some tower damage, and then immediately used its W ability to create a clone to move forward, using the clone to attract the tower's aggro so that Sylas could pass through together.

The two of them took the fastest "shortcut" and went straight into the other side's upper half of the penalty area!

Kanavi and the left-handed player in the middle lane, who were soaking in the spring water, were both stunned for a moment.

Not buddy.

What are you doing! ?

But in an instant, they understood each other's intentions.

If Sylas hadn't come along, Cassiopeia would definitely have been able to help Nautilus defend the top half of the map. Wukong, not having recalled and in poor condition, obviously couldn't beat Cassiopeia.

But Silas followed.

Without a jungler, Cassiopeia would be crazy to attempt a 1v2!

There was no other way but to continue pushing the lane in the middle and force Sylas back first.

However, before Sylas used his teleport, Zuo Shou didn't dare to move towards F6.

By the time Sylas teleported back to base, Monkey King had almost finished clearing the F6 camp and was even continuing to move towards the Stone Golems in the upper half of the map!

Titan had just been resurrected at this time.

Even though Kanvai vaguely guessed the monkey's possible movements, he was somewhat powerless to do anything about it!
Ornn in the top lane has no lane presence against Quesant, so you can't expect Ornn to do anything.

"Kanavi completely lost in the jungle in the early game!" Guan Zeyuan exclaimed nervously, clenching his fist.

"With such a disadvantage in the jungle, Titan will have to spend time farming, and he probably won't reach level six in five minutes. They also won't be able to take the first dragon!"

"V5's early game was all about extreme targeting of the jungle, even to the point of annihilation!"

Scout, looking at the mid laner, chimed in, "But if we play like this, the mid laner will have a huge advantage, and Sylas will have a hard time laning."

Doinb echoed, "Indeed, Cassiopeia was able to pressure Sylas after this wave, and Nautilus can at least protect the jungle, so it's not going to collapse."

"Now we'll see how effective this mid-lane advantage can be."

(End of this chapter)