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Chapter 303 Single-Pole Breakthrough? Chu Yuxun Beats Up the Great Sage Riding the Sky!

As soon as we entered the canyon, the director displayed the data below.

"Wow, Darius' last appearance was 1432 days ago! It was picked by Thehsy, who just came off the field in the last game, during the S9 season against the peak FPX!"

Guan Zeyuan was still excitedly explaining to the audience: "Some viewers may not know that when Qingtian was in the YM team in LDL, he was a famous Darius pro player in the LDL league. His game ID was even called 'The General Holding a Giant Axe'!"

"And there might actually be a reason why Darius is used against Quesanti!"

In the current version of the top lane trio, Renekton and Jax are weak in the late game and weak in team fights, respectively.

Quesanti is the only relatively balanced hero; even after being nerfed countless times, he still feels like there are almost no heroes who can absolutely counter him.

The reappearance of Darius, a champion who had almost disappeared from the competitive scene, was indeed a pleasant surprise for everyone.

Remember then jokingly looked at the opposing team and said, "V5's situation is a bit strange. They have Kai'Sa and Draven, both of which are Jack's signature moves!"

When people in DYS's live stream saw that ID at the bottom, they immediately became agitated.

"Holy crap, this is insanely hot! Please let the gods possess me! It's TheShy from the IG era! This match is like a virtual reunion of the three carries from IG Incheon!!!" Kid God of Travel was extremely excited and gesticulated wildly when he saw that ID.

He let out an incredibly excited scream: "A tribute! This is absolutely a tribute! TES will win this game easily!"

"And I remember this match perfectly! It was TheShy's Darius performance in a super memorable moment! He was low on health in the bottom lane when Doinb and the jungler ganked him, but he immediately turned around, used Q-flash to 1v2 and kill them both, and his teammates in the mid lane pushed up the high ground and destroyed it! It was the most terrifying Darius I've ever seen in a match!"

The child spirit was speaking with great sincerity and eloquence, recounting the memories in his mind.

But Sun Yeyou, who was standing next to him, suddenly felt a glint in his eye and secretly started doing something naughty on the secondary screen.

A short while later, a chuckle could be heard.

"Wait a minute, kid god, why are you lying to us!"

Sun Yalong immediately pulled the webpage from the secondary screen back to the main live stream screen and found the last Darius game shown by the director.

It was indeed TheShy, and the opponent was indeed Doinb—except that Darius's score in that game was 1-7!

Pictures don't lie; the kid's spirit was completely silenced.

Xika seemed to have suddenly had his memory awakened: "Yeah! The match you're talking about seems to be from before, during Doinb's RW era. Then, during S9, IG didn't seem to win against FPX much all year~~~"

The child god was instantly struck down four times in a second, leaving him speechless.

Finally, he could only lower his head and sullenly fiddle with his fingers, muttering to himself, "Just you wait."

Seeing that the other person was withdrawn, Sika glanced back at the screen to find something to amuse herself.

"Wait! I've got him!"

"Wow! He's definitely my brother's biggest hater! He doesn't even use my brother's skin when playing Kai'Sa!"

Sun Yalong immediately chimed in agreement: "Indeed! I'm telling you, I've never seen anyone on the field not use my brother's skin! That's a rule even stricter than writing an application to pick Vayne!"

"What's most special is this batch of KDA models. Apart from the good-looking models, they're completely useless. There's absolutely no reason for that!"

[It's true, YE did it on purpose!]

[Sun Yanzi! Li Henshui! And Ye Chujun are all joining DYS!]

[This is hilarious! Just a second ago I was listening to Monkey bragging in the stream that he completely crushed TS's Darius, and the next second I heard Xiaohai raving about it. Hahahaha!]

[Sigh, parents are never wrong. For a filial child, memories of Song Jiang will automatically be erased, which is understandable!]

[It's a pity that Master Ye picked Kai'Sa in this game, so we won't get to see Qingtian researching the i7 to pay tribute to the legendary top laner.]

The two sides' first-tier units remained peaceful, and the minion waves clashed normally.

However, looking at the lineups alone, both junglers are heroes who need to farm to level 6, and the two mid-lane heroes are also heroes who farm each other's lanes.

Theoretically, there's unlikely to be a breakout moment in the early game.

Kai'Sa is considered short-ranged in the bot lane, but she's actually quite good in the mid lane.

One of the unique advantages of ADC heroes in the mid lane is that they have a natural advantage in {push the lane with basic attacks} and {trade and exchange of blows} due to their hero attributes.

The same principle applies to the top lane, where long-range heroes dominate short-range heroes, who naturally possess strong lane pressure.

There's an old saying that goes:
Even if an ADC is trash, only those who stay in the bot lane are called ADCs!
However, Doinb on the other side of the seafood platform seemed to have a different opinion on the early stages of the situation.

"Brothers, it feels like the early game strategy between the junglers on both sides is crucial!"

He explained his understanding: "Because it's very difficult to gank mid lane, but it's unlikely that top and bottom lanes will develop peacefully. Darius and Draven are both champions who need to fight for the win in lane!"

"We really need to be careful with Xiao Wei's choice."

Although Doinb is currently unemployed, his experience is still invaluable, and his game reading is still very accurate.

At this moment, both Xun and Wei were feeling uneasy.

They have all realized the weight of their responsibilities in this matter.

If we only consider the laning phase, there is no doubt that the mid, bot, and jungle lanes on both sides are evenly matched, except for TES's top lane Darius, who has the advantage in the laning phase.

It's not just a slight advantage!

Darius, as a "universally popular" hero, has an undeniable advantage against tank heroes. His passive true damage, Bloodrage, and ultimate's extremely high true damage, along with the high percentage armor penetration from his E skill's passive, make him a natural tank killer!

Moreover, Darius also possesses terrifying combat power in small-scale skirmishes.

There are countless examples of "one person's rage causing the whole family to perish"—it's no exaggeration to say that he's the top lane version of the mid lane Blade of the Ruined King!

In theory, it could even be considered an enhanced version of a crocodile!

This is also what TES prepared for V5.

Don't you guys like to play a half-box offense?

They can directly pick a hero who can dominate from level 1 to level 16 in a chaotic battle. Even if they pick Blade of the Ruined King in the mid lane, they will still have a huge advantage in small-scale battles in their own half of the map!

In this way, even if the bottom half of the map is invaded or attacked, the jungler can switch to relying on their own top laner to roam around the top half of the map.

It can be described as a "single-pole breakthrough" approach!

However, despite possessing so many strengths, Darius is a rare benchwarmer in competitive matches, and there are reasons for that.

Afraid of being caught!

And extremely stupid!
He has no mobility skills, and his only control ability is the King's Pull, which requires him to be at least 500 yards away to hit. In team fights, if you can get within 500 yards, you're usually about to be focused down and killed!
Not to mention what if the E skill misses, or if it hits but is then flashed away?

If the enemy manages to use any movement or control abilities, he'll never be able to touch anyone again!

Therefore, there is a consensus that almost all Darius players agree on.

Summoner Spell: You absolutely must take {Sprint}!

Even in professional competitions!
This alone is the biggest obstacle for Darius to step onto the competitive stage.

It's important to understand that not being able to carry a TP teleport means an extremely low "error tolerance." Getting ganked and killed in one wave could easily lead to a complete collapse, not to mention the inability to use TP to support the side lanes.

This means that if TES's bot lane is in trouble, they will naturally have one less teleport to rescue them in this game.

So at this point...

From Wei's perspective, the choice seems obvious.

We must maintain our advantage on the road!
On the one hand, the first thing to do is to force the opponent's top laner to use their Teleport, so as not to create a Teleport disadvantage, which is important for both the laning phase and the side lanes.

On the other hand, as long as you can maintain your laning advantage in the top lane, you'll have a safety net in your jungle.

However, Wei also had some ulterior motives.

At the start of the game, he had Darius position himself in the river, sacrificing Darius's potential "level 1 lane control" pressure opportunity, in order to scout the enemy jungler's jungle movement. He also mentally planned out several jungle routes.

Wei then said in the voice chat, "I'll switch to a different jungler. Shuizi, you guys wait and help me sacrifice yourself to get one more kill."

"Brother Chicken, you need to keep an eye on me too!"

The TES members were all easygoing, and they immediately agreed and cooperated after hearing his instructions.

Wei's strategic shift is quietly unfolding.

This change, viewed from God's perspective, is also quite meaningful.

"Little Wei, three wolves open?" Doinb tried to analyze the other party's intentions.

"Is this some kind of scheme? A level 2 gank by the monkey is pointless; they're probably just trying to steal the jungle!"

"But their own support was Yuumi at level one, and the enemy had a Titan who could easily find opportunities. TES didn't have the ability to get any information in the level one team fight, so he actually had no idea about Xun's movements."

Doinb isn't a jungler, so he doesn't know what the other player is thinking.

Meanwhile, TES's bot lane duo was already helping with the jungle clearing, and at the cost of slightly losing the initiative in lane control, they successfully helped Wukong finish the three wolves with almost full health and without needing to use Smite.

Then, the monkey was seen walking directly into the opponent's blue zone!
In Wei's opinion, his bottom lane was going to farm anyway, and if they traded too much damage in the early game, they might get ganked, so he was going to let the lane go and play it safe, so it wouldn't have much of an impact.

His goal, of course, was to go to the opposing blue zone!

As Doinb said, he didn't have any information about the opponent's jungle clearing at the start of the game.

Therefore, we can only assume that the other party is the worst possible outcome, like Lan Kai.

He believes that with Flandre's champion pool, he should be quite experienced in laning against Darius. Therefore, he will definitely try to position himself early at level one or go to lane with the minions to avoid being blocked by Darius in the first bush without taking any damage.

This means that even if Viktoria starts playing Blue, it will definitely be a "solo adventure".

A solo jungle clearing speed will definitely be slow, you will inevitably have to use Smite, and your condition will definitely be poor!
With Smite in hand, the monkey quickly cleared the jungle with three other players and headed straight for the blue buff area, where they had a good chance of catching Vi!
Ideally, the kill should be a direct confrontation.

In the worst-case scenario, you can at least force a Flash by using the difference in Smite and your status, and also steal 1-2 sets of jungle monsters for free!
Since the upper half of the jungle is their own advantage, Xun has no choice but to give it up. In addition, Xun has taken down the three wolves at the start of the game, so Xun may have to lose an entire jungle area at the start of the game!
So, what if Xun starts with red?
That's even better!
If Vi chooses the normal route of {clearing all the red zones}, he will be surprised to find that he only has one wolf left in the blue zone when he arrives!
If Vi chooses the {double buff fast three} route.

Since the monkey is using the three wolves, and can use his W clone to penetrate the F6 wall for speed, he will definitely be able to place wards before Vi reaches the blue buff!

Place wards first to gain vision advantage, which will give you an edge whether you're fighting for control or counter-jungling.

There's even a greater chance of getting a kill!

In the worst-case scenario, even if Vi happens to choose the default swap half of the map and goes directly to his blue side after clearing the red side, he still won't be able to level up to level four because he's missing three wolves.

At that time, Wei can take advantage of this level difference to do things, and also slow down the cycle speed of the opponent's two jungle areas, so that Xun's subsequent half of the jungle will have fewer jungle monsters!
The monkey had already squeezed through the wall separating its own F6 building and was taking the fastest route.

Wei first placed a ward outside the enemy's blue buff wall and was overjoyed to find that the blue buff was still intact.

Whether Xun's plan was to quickly reach level four and gank top, or to exchange sides and attack half of the jungle, his early game jungle strategy had undoubtedly crushed the opponent!
In this match, Wei is absolutely eager to carry the team.

Ideally, it should be a very obvious "jungle carry"!
It wasn't just Xiao Tian backstage who was eyeing Xun covetously. For some reason, he always felt a strange hostility towards Xun.

Perhaps it's out of jealousy—why did that other person get to join V5? If it were me, I'm sure I could achieve similar results.
However, Doinb outside was extremely anxious.

"Oh my god, Wei! Can't we just proceed with the usual way of exploring? There's absolutely no need for this!"

"Isn't this the end of the line?!"

In fact, some astute viewers in the live chat had already noticed when Xun switched to using F6 at the start of the game.

Of course, Xun couldn't have come up with anything.

This is actually just a "standard technique" to protect the bottom lane in the early laning phase.

As we all know, Draven on the blue side cannot be pulled too far away from the red buff due to the terrain difference, otherwise he will lose aggro. Normally, he cannot use the "Double Axe" combo.

If you absolutely have to block it, there are only two ways.

1. Let the jungler go to other jungle camps to clear the jungle, leaving the red buff for Draven alone, and pull him out of range.

2. The jungler cannot attack the Krugs at level 2. Draven and the support should both go around the Krugs from below to pull them out of range and block their double axes.

Xun chose the first option.

JKL, who is also skilled with Draven, naturally understood this point—but being rather careless, he assumed the enemy jungler hadn't attacked the Krugs at level two and didn't take it seriously at all.

But Wei had no idea about any of this!

His AD teammates from a few years ago were Gala and ELK.

They are all AD carry players in the LPL who are notorious for not knowing how to play Draven.

I've just joined Draven's team, but the problem is, they've only been here for two weeks!

Not to mention that in previous versions, the bot lane focused on carry AD carries, so there was no opportunity to practice Draven, and Wei had absolutely no concept of this.

Of course, this is only a small part of the reason.

The most significant change is Xun's future plans.

After clearing the F6 camp, Xun didn't immediately turn around and start attacking the red buff. Instead, he went to the blue buff area and placed a ward in his own blue buff pit.

His idea was actually very simple: Xun knew that the opponent had an advantage in the top half of the jungle and would most likely want to swap jungle camps with him. After swapping jungle camps, he would not be able to return to the top half of the jungle.

Therefore, Xun chose to waste nearly ten seconds of jungle clearing time by placing his ward in the blue buff pit in order to detect the enemy jungler's location.

In this way, the top and bottom laners can roughly determine the location of the enemy jungler based on whether or not the blue buff has been attacked.

But it was precisely this action that led to this.

Instead, Xun became the one who "placed the wards in advance"!

Just about 5 seconds after he placed the ward and was about to return, he suddenly saw a red ward appear in the blue buff pit!

Wei was actually quite cautious, but he was still worried that the opponent might be a little slower at clearing jungle camps, so he deliberately waited a while before engaging in the buff fight.

I don't know.

Xun stood in the bush camp outside the blue buff, waiting for the monkey who would inevitably come in after placing the ward!

"Xun is charging up his punch. He's done for!"

"I got it!!"

With superior vision, he can easily defeat those who are not, and Wukong's ability to steal jungle camps is already slightly inferior to Vi's Charge.

Vi successfully secured the blue buff through a smite attack!

Fortunately, the monkey learned W at level two and quickly used W to create distance. With their top lane having an advantage, Vi didn't dare to chase too far.
But Wei's face immediately turned very ugly, and he bit his upper lip.

"Little Wei!" Doinb couldn't help but show a pained expression.

"Don't be fooled by the fact that he didn't use Flash, the Monkey King's jungle clearing speed is already off the charts! And his teammates both sacrificed a lot of their time in the early game!"

“Darius could have pressured Quesant at level 1, but he couldn’t because he had to watch the positioning. The bot lane was also pressured a lot, and he will have to keep farming the jungle.”

"But I really don't think we can blame Xiao Wei! He meant well. It just felt like he was unlucky this time. Bin was right! Luck is very important!"

Doinb was genuinely trying to smooth things over and explain things away.

But the comments section was already flooded with messages like "Looking forward to Chu Yuxun beating up the Great Sage Equal to Heaven!"
However, immediately afterward, observing the movements of the junglers from God's perspective, a surprising change was suddenly discovered.

"Why!?"

"What are they trying to do?!"

(End of this chapter)