LOL: I just turned 18, let me fight back and be reborn

Chapter 297 Feint to the East, Attack in the West! The "Sea-Stabilizing Needle" Tactic?
"What is Yi doing now?!" Zz1tai exclaimed, speechless. "What's this Blade of the Ruined King mid lane?!"

Letme then adopted a professional demeanor: "Actually, to be honest, the mid and top lane matchup against Blade of the Ruined King seems to have been played in competitive matches as soon as this champion was released, probably in Season 11?"

"√ Of course I know, but S11 feels like something from four or five years ago, can it still be played now?"

The Blade of the Ruined King mid lane was already in use when Season 11 was first released, and it was even considered one of the mainstream builds at the time, and it was quite common in competitive play.

The reason it was able to be released at the time was simply because the stats of the newly released Ruined King were too outrageous.

Back then, the high healing effect of Q skill was so powerful that it could easily defeat vampires and crocodiles, making it a pure cheat in lane!

Later, the designers nerfed the healing effect of the Q skill, cutting it in half for minions, which forced Blade of the Ruined King back into the jungle.

Of course, Ye Bo's purpose in choosing him was clearly not for the purpose of laning.

"Braum leads the team straight to the bottom jungle at level 1, it seems like V5 wants to engage in a level 1 team fight!"

"V5's level 1 team fight is full of strong players, while BLG's two carries, Azir and Aphelios, are just super minions at level 1. There's absolutely no way they can engage. They can only retreat and leave the jungle to avoid it!"

"However, V5 doesn't seem to be trying to force a fight; they just came in to establish some vision control in the jungle."

ON's ward, placed on the lower half of the red zone to detect movements, was accurately spotted and eliminated by Beryl. In fact, BLG had no idea of ​​V5's movements at all.

But Kitagawa had spent half a year at V5, and suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.

"The other side is probably trying to invade my jungle."

In Kitagawa's view, the opponent might not be his red starter.

Because opening like that is simply a matter of exchanging jungle camps at the start of the game. It's not unacceptable for BLG's bot laner Aphelios, who needs to farm, and it doesn't really seem like V5's style of doing things.

Perhaps the opposing team just wants to confirm and lock down Vi's jungle path!
After all, BLG has no fighting power in all three lanes at level 1, so Vi is unlikely to risk a chaotic level 1 jungle fight by going to the enemy's red buff area.

Meanwhile, the lower half of his map is completely dark and will inevitably be filled with his vision, so it's clear that Vi can only play Blue now.

No matter how you look at it, it seems like the other team is planning to come to the jungle to find me.

"I can steal the lane!"

"We can give it a try too."

BLG's top and bottom lanes immediately responded positively, clearly not wanting to suffer a setback, while GaoGao in the mid lane only hesitated slightly.

Kitagawa was right.

During the ban/pick phase, V5 released Azir and Aphelios, two strong champions in the current meta, simply because both of them are not strong in the early game.

Remember V5's first understanding of the Summer Split patch? It was that the weakening of the mid laner's ability to roam to the side lanes actually increased the importance of "mid-jungle matchups".

In the first match of the Summer Split against EDG, the opponent picked Twisted Fate, a champion with absolutely no combat ability, which led to JieJie's jungle being completely destroyed.

However, as the competition has evolved, both the methods of response and the mainstream understanding of the game have changed.

First and foremost, it's natural to choose a jungle hero that excels in 1v1 situations, and the recent surge in Kha'Zix's pick rate is one example of this.

However, this is clearly a very "unstable" way of coping.

This is because it not only places extremely high demands on junglers, but also requires all three lanes to select heroes with exceptional early-game laning abilities. If the opposing team selects a utility jungler to avoid jungle skirmishes, the pressure on them to attack will be immense!
If you don't defeat your opponent, you defeat yourself!

Undoubtedly, unless the draft is completely outmatched, it's virtually impossible to pick a lineup where all four lanes are at a disadvantage.

In that case, all the enemy jungler has to do is keep avoiding fights and changing jungle areas, and they can always find at least one side of the map where their side lane has an advantage to farm.

This is why utility junglers, who don't need to force teammates to play defensively, are gradually becoming the mainstream.

However, after several versions of experimentation, Ye Bo and Beryl came up with a playstyle that corresponded to the mainstream system based on their team's strengths.

In four words: "The Stabilizing Force of the Sea"!
The key to this strategy and its core foundation is that the "mid lane" must be strong enough.

The reason is simple: since it is difficult to select a lineup with advantages in all four lanes, and the top and bottom lanes are strong but can only protect half of the map due to the regional limitations of the side lanes, the only lane that has the theoretical possibility of radiating across the entire map is the mid lane.

Ideally, the fight should be won wherever it takes place in the middle lane!
Only then can the goal of "Forced Battle Across the Entire Map" be achieved!

However, new problems soon followed.

That is, in this version of the mid lane, there is simply no hero with an "absolute combat power advantage"!

Even champions like Sylas, LeBlanc, and Tristana, who are generally considered to have strong fighting abilities, wouldn't dare say they have an absolute advantage in melee combat when they are at the same level of development!
In the current version, basically only one top laner, Renekton, dares to say this, which is why he has become a key player in the meta.

However, while searching, Ye Bo suddenly thought of a hero in his hero pool.

The King of Ruin!

If the King of Ruined King claims to be second in "melee combat," then no one in the Rift would dare to claim to be first in melee combat—because theoretically, the King of Ruined King could not only be first, but also "become second"!
But as mentioned earlier, only Renekton dares to say this in the current version, not Blademaster.
why?

Because the jungler Blademaster is not included in this list.

The reasoning behind this is quite simple.

In solo lanes, both level and development are destined to be far superior to those in the jungle. Without extra jungle benefits, a mid laner will usually reach level 6 while the jungler is only level 4.

No matter how strong a hero is, there's no point in a level 4 hero fighting a level 6 hero!
On the other hand, as mentioned earlier, there aren't many strong early-game heroes in the mid lane this version. Even the strongest LeBlanc has been weakened because of the need to build Statikk Shiv, which makes room for Blade of the Ruined King.

To extend this further.

Because there aren't many strong mid-lane champions, Blade of the Ruined King naturally faces less laning pressure in the mid lane.

At least compared to the jungle environment, he faces champions like Kha'Zix, Nocturne, Nidalee, and Poppy who can easily kill him in 1v1; and champions like Lee Sin, Vi, Wukong, and Kindred who are not afraid of him at all.
The mid laner faces much less laning pressure from a mage carry!
As the mid-lane matchup began, Ye Bo seemed to be demonstrating this point.

"The pressure on the Ruined King doesn't seem that great?" The situation felt different from what he had imagined.

The Tsar's range is considerable, and he's definitely not weak in lane. Logically, breaking the short-ranged King of Defeat should have been an easy way to beat him.

However in fact.

In lane, the worst opponent for Blade of the Ruined King is Sylas!
Sylas's Q ability, Blade of the Ruined King, may not look long, but it actually has a range of 600 yards, only about 100 yards shorter than Sylas's longest-range Q, Chain Lash.

However, the Blade of Ruin only has a 5-second cooldown.

The chain whipping lasted a full 10 seconds!
Most importantly, the former is a hero with no mana cost!

Even a minion hit by Wang Jian's Q with a basic attack can restore health!

So to put it bluntly, if Blade of the Ruined King just wants to "play defensively and farm" in the mid lane in the short term, there are few heroes in the entire mid lane who can survive more easily than him!

Of course, if that's all there is to it, it's nothing special; it's just the typical path of a mediocre hero.

The distance between the level 1 Tsar's sand soldiers is only 525 yards, and since he cannot move the sand soldiers, he naturally cannot suppress the Ruined King for the time being.

But all that was seen was that both mid laners leveled up to level three.

Toothpaste wanted to put his idea of ​​helping the jungle into practice. At level three, he finally had the ability to command sand soldiers, which boosted his suppression to a whole new level. He immediately summoned sand soldiers to charge forward, wanting to poke and harass.

Despite enduring the sand soldiers' stabs, the Ruined King did not retreat as usual.

Instead, they strode forward, moving away from the sand soldiers.

The Ruined King unleashed a black mist that spread across the center of the minion wave before disappearing into the vast scorched earth!
The Tsar immediately raised another sand soldier to search for the enemy within the black mist.

however.

The soldier's eyes could not see the king's true face!
{Sand Soldiers are not considered hero units and therefore cannot gain vision within the fog of war.}
However, at this moment, Ye Bo seemed to suddenly notice something "strange," and his eyes showed some surprise.
Fortunately, the toothpaste tube didn't notice.

The scorched earth spell had a range of 800 yards, traversing the entire lane of minions and extending to the back of the blue team's ranged minions.

Toothpaste stared at the completely uninforming black mist, his mind racing with anxious anticipation of the other party's movements. E [Vast Scorched Earth]'s cloaking detection range is 450 yards.

The shortest sprint distance for W【千载幽咽】 is 400 yards.

In other words, by the time the Blade of the Ruined King appears, it's almost impossible for the player to react or move away after instantly casting W!
A squishy champion like Tsar could easily lose half his health if Blade of the Ruined King unleashes a WAAQAA combo in a second, triggering the burst damage from Conqueror!

The solution is quite simple: stay away from the black fog.

As long as you are more than 600 yards away from the black mist, you will have enough time to react and avoid the opponent's surprise attack, and naturally there will be no threat.

The problem is that this black mist was released directly from the center of the minion wave by the Ruined King, and it stretched across the entire minion wave.

At this moment, the end of the black mist was only three inches behind the ranged soldiers.

If they retreated another 600 yards, the Tsar would almost be standing on the foot of the tower!

"Holy crap, it seems I actually understand!" Zi Tai began to explain to the audience in a dramatic and exaggerated manner.

"Everyone remembers, right? Ever since the last rework of Tsar, you have to max W in the early game, which means you have to keep commanding the sand soldiers to poke people to deal damage! If you use Q in the early game, it will do no damage and you will run out of mana!"

"But with this black mist hiding there, the Sand Soldiers can't come out, and the Tsar doesn't dare to get close, otherwise he wouldn't be able to withstand a full combo from the Ruined King!"

"Wright, how long does the Ruined King's E last again?"

While pretending to be deep in thought, Letme glanced at the secondary screen and secretly opened the official website's hero skill introduction: "I remember, 8 seconds!"

The figure continued to ramble on: "Look, this means that Blade of the Ruined King has eight seconds of active wave pushing time per wave. Even if Blade of the Ruined King can't push the wave in, it's enough time to clear most of it. How can anyone win the wave! Unless Azir doesn't last hit!"

Meanwhile, Kitagawa had just finished clearing his own upper blue buff area.

Since there was no information about the opponent's jungle clearing, the first choice was naturally to go to the opponent's top side of the jungle.

Gwen in the top lane did manage to steal Gragas's wave, meaning Vi still has a fighting chance even if the mid lane's support is a little slow.

But when Beichuan stepped into the red zone, his heart sank.

The enemy's red zone is empty, which means that Zhao Xin must have started with red.

At this point, they must be heading towards their lower half of the bracket!

After all, BLG's top laner Gwen has an advantage against Gragas, and also has an advantage in the top half of the map. However, the bottom laner Lena and Aphelios are not strong enough in lane, and at most they can only go toe-to-toe with Braum.

With V5's Braum, Xin Zhao, and Fryego, their fighting strength in the lower half of the map is visibly stronger than BLG's!

This is to prevent Wei from having the opportunity to exchange resources in the advantageous half of the bracket, forcing him to come to the disadvantageous half of the bracket!

Kitagawa knew he had guessed right. The opposing team was indeed targeting him.

But even if you figure it out...

The top laner couldn't be ganked because they had successfully pushed the lane, and the mid laner was an Azir who had no coordination ability before level 6. They also had to worry about whether Xin Zhao would counter-gank from behind.

At this moment, Wei knew there were tigers in the mountains, but he still had to go against the tide!
Otherwise, he would have nowhere to go!

"Zhao Xin has definitely gone to my bottom half of the map. Everyone, you might need to keep an eye on me this time." Beichuan hesitated for a long time before speaking to his older brothers.

"Come on, let's do it!" ELK immediately took on the role of commander without hesitation.

“We can come!” ON immediately agreed with his partner.

The toothpaste could only say, "I'll go with the Ruined King."

In Kitagawa's view, he had already understood V5's early game design. It was indeed V5's consistent style of cutting off all escape routes and creating a deadly jungle.

But what he didn't know was that he had only guessed about a third of the truth.

Chen Zebin, who was on the road, didn't care about all that.

Gwen taking down Gragas is a matchup that extremely tests a player's individual skill.

In terms of sustained combat, Gwen is far superior to Gragas. Gragas's only chance of winning is to use his attrition ability to lower Gwen's health, but the accuracy of his skills is obviously not consistent.

Chen Zebin, who was full of energy, displayed incredibly skillful movement in the early laning phase, dodging several of Gragas's Qs, which allowed him to gain lane control.

Upon hearing his teammates preparing for a major team fight in the bottom half of the map, he immediately made a move to cross the minion wave and exert pressure, wanting to take advantage of his 1v1 advantage and block the Gragas outside the minion wave!
"Oh no! It seems like they didn't realize it at all!"

"V5 pulled off an ultimate feint!"

"V5's former jungler engaged in a war of words from afar, but it seems that Xun completely figured out Beichuan's Vi!"

From God's perspective, the level 3 Zhao Xin has been silently crouching in the triangular bush for at least 10 seconds.

Xun wasn't in a hurry because he was waiting for Kitagawa to "come to his senses".

Kitagawa understands V5, and V5 understands him as well.

Moreover, because the two had previously engaged in close communication over a long period of time, they shared many common understandings of heroes.

Xun was certain that Kitagawa, playing Vi, a champion heavily reliant on her level 6 ultimate, would not accept the loss of his jungle. Upon seeing V5's top jungle empty, Xun naturally conceived of a jungle strategy targeting him.

But in fact, Xun did the opposite and did not take the most logical action on the surface—instead, he set his sights on the top lane!
Saint Gun pretended to throw his Q to finish off the enemy and harass them, but Chen Zebin seized the opportunity and used his E [Intermittent Displacement] to take a big step forward to dodge the rolling barrel, while rushing into the barrel's face.

However, the next moment, Zhao Xin stepped out from behind!
"You're so mean! You're so wicked!"

"He even deliberately gave up his E in that position, so he's definitely doomed!"

Chen Zebin's face immediately darkened, realizing that there seemed to be no way to escape from his position, and he could only try to exchange skills.

Unfortunately, it was clearly to no avail. Once Zhao Xin's barrel stuck to Gwen, she had no chance of escaping. He aimed his spear at Gwen's back and stabbed her twice, sending her flying into the air!
A blood is born!

[Song Bin! Song Bin! He was the first to create an opening in both games!]

[Where did these two games come from? Wasn't GaoChu feeding in the last game? And didn't anyone notice that GaoChu couldn't even pressure Blade of the Ruined King with Azir this game? I really don't want to talk about the mid lane GAP!]

Honestly, blaming the top laner this time doesn't make sense. It feels like someone is spreading false information or there's a mole inside!

[Bin: Damn, it's purely a jungle difference. If that enemy jungler were me, how could I possibly lose to them?]

[I think Xun is really good, much better than Beichuan and Wei before! I can't even imagine how strong he would be if he joined our all-Chinese BLG team, directly aiming for the championship!]

Stop testing Wei, even if Xunzi leaves, you still can't come to V5.

"Isn't the jungler me?" Chen Zebin asked, looking annoyed.

"I'm sorry, I didn't expect this," Kitagawa could only say in a low voice, clearly realizing that he had been tricked by his opponent.

Although he was surprised, he reacted quickly and immediately tried to turn around and head to the enemy jungle.

This was a misleading move by V5 with their most obvious offensive strategy. Furthermore, since both sides started in the top half of the map, even if they managed to gank top, they would likely lose jungle territory.
Kitagawa could only lament that he was still too inexperienced in this area and lacked the courage to engage in such a substitution game, resulting in a completely unexpected variation.

But that is also the main reason why he contracted the virus.

Perhaps this isn't such a bad loss?
Although the top laner was caught out and gave up first blood, Gragas wasn't so bad as to be able to suppress Gwen and prevent her from snowballing, so it was just a loss of first blood.

In contrast, the situation in the lower bracket, which was originally quite dire for BLG, has now been resolved.

At this point, Zhao Xin's lower blue buff area was destined to be Wei's, and she could actually gain resources from the entire jungle, thus reducing her losses significantly!
just
From God's perspective, everyone was astonished and wide-eyed at V5's subsequent moves.

"What does this mean?!"

"Are V5 even going to fight in the bottom half of the map?! Their jungler is outnumbered in the top lane!"

(End of this chapter)