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Chapter 541: Early Game Team Composition Was Absolutely Terrible

Therefore, it is necessary to play at different times.

This puts the importance of vision to the test. When Camille doesn't group up but appears in a certain position on a separate route, Lin Ruo naturally needs to do something useful during this time.

For example, the time point of 7 minutes.

After clearing the three wolves, Camille headed towards the bottom half of the map, clearly intending to grab the newly spawned red buff to facilitate her later actions.

EDG responded very quickly upon hearing the commotion, and GimGoon's Irelia easily pushed the lane into the tower in the top lane.

Lin Ruo, controlling Zhao Xin, had already arrived at the entrance of the river jungle in the upper half of the map, and was waiting for Ryze, who was coming up with him, to activate his ultimate.

A winding rune array suddenly appeared behind the turret, and EDG's rapid grouping made Sword Emperor inside the turret feel somewhat ashamed.

Even though Chovy had already reached the blue zone by this time, he was still a bit slow.

The Irelia, who entered the tower, initiated the fight by using her ultimate, quickly forcing Sion to use Flash to retreat.

The Sword Emperor had no choice.

If he wants to escape, he absolutely cannot get entangled by the Blade of the Swordswoman, otherwise every place is a speed bump and he will surely die.

Unfortunately, Zhao Xin had already blocked Sion's escape route the moment he flashed away. Unless he had a second flash at that moment, Sion had no chance to escape.

The Sword Emperor has been activated.

He just bumped into Zhao Xin, who had positioned himself earlier.

Now that I have no skills left, there is naturally no possibility of escape.

Just as both mid laners reached level 6, EDG quickly seized the initiative and gained control of the game.

Scout's Ryze also got a kill.

Within the first 7 minutes, EDG's top, mid, and jungle all had kills without dying once.

Chovy, arriving late, could only devour the remaining threads, powerless to do anything more.

"Ah, Shiba, that team fight at level 2 had such a huge consequence that Sword was completely powerless to fight back in the laning phase."

The Roaring Emperor hit the nail on the head.

If Irelia hadn't secured two kills at the start, Sion wouldn't be in such a bad situation. At least he wouldn't be in a situation where Irelia can push the lane and control the enemy however she wants.

This allows EDG's jungler and support to tower dive anytime, anywhere, without ever needing to worry about not having minions or other issues that require cover.

So EDG arrived immediately.

Sion is too easy for them to catch now. Even though Lin Ruo and Zhao Xin are not level 6 at this time, it does not affect their ability to arrest Sion at all.

In this situation, the only good news for GRF is that, thankfully, it's Sion.

If it were a warrior top laner, they could be playing on their phone in the fountain by now.

However, if it's Sion, even if he doesn't develop well in the early game, he can still develop and play his role in team fights later on. He won't be useless or a side effect.

The only difference is that the opposing team's various positions have exceeded expectations due to Sion, which is something that can't be helped.

For a lineup combination where both sides emphasize early-game advantage in the upper half of the map, the current situation has reached a turning point.

If Irelia is invincible in the top lane, then the top jungle will inevitably become hers as well.

So what followed was Irelia recklessly taking Xin Zhao into the jungle to steal the blue buff.

GRF has no way to deal with it.

Tazan, who was holding back his anger, hadn't reached the point of being so furious yet. They hadn't done anything yet, and if things continued like this until the mid-game, GRF would definitely be the team with the better skills and combat prowess in team fights.

Therefore, they only need to seize the best opportunity within these 10 minutes or so.

Abbreviation: Ganboda.

Currently, the upper half of the map no longer offers any advantage, so Tazan has chosen to focus on invading the lower half of the map while sticking together, in order to ensure they can accomplish something there.

For GRF's lineup, initiating team fights and finding opportunities has never been a problem.

What they need is for the bottom lane to push the lane, giving them enough time to invade.

Lin Ruo understood this principle. In his judgment, he should either maintain a frequency that was different from Qing Gangying's to avoid a battle on a scale exceeding two people.

Either go to the bottom half of the box and focus on counter-ganking, never take the initiative to attack.

During this period, we should also take precautions to maintain vision control in the jungle. GRF's invasions are unlikely to happen once or twice, but they only need one opportunity.

Therefore, EDG maintained their dispersed positioning system for the remainder of the 9-minute mark.

When Lin Ruo is in the bottom half of the map, Ryze is farming in the mid lane. When he sees Lissandra moving towards the bottom half of the map, Scout's first move is to move towards the top half of the map in the opposite direction.

It's definitely not about going down there to see if you can help.

In Lin Ruo's view, this was definitely not helping, but rather giving GRF an opportunity.

It goes without saying that GRF's lineup was already several degrees stronger than theirs in the early game.

Furthermore, the team's most fed Irelia is still in the top lane, so it's impossible for her to participate in any battles in the bottom half of the jungle. Therefore, at this point, we absolutely cannot let GRF have their way and engage in a fight in the bottom half of the jungle.

Once they face off, they will be the ones to suffer a 100% loss, unless GRF makes some super-huge mistake. However, it is obviously unrealistic to rely on their opponents at this juncture.

Therefore, Scout must not follow the crowd, but instead stubbornly continue to try and apply pressure.

However, leaving the duo alone in the bottom lane makes them too vulnerable to tower diving. Therefore, Lin Ruo needs to maintain activity in the bottom half of the jungle, keeping good vision in the jungle and not staying there for long. Instead, he should focus more on moving around the edge of the turret.

Or call on the Titan in the field to prepare for a counter-gank.

This way.

GRF suffered repeated setbacks in the bottom half of the bracket, failing to find any good opportunities.

Entering the jungle means either the jungle monsters have already been eaten by Xin Zhao, or there are only one or two left, so what's the point of eating them...?

GRF's goal is to apply pressure to the bottom half of the map, thereby forcing EDG to concentrate all their positions except for the top lane, so that they can use lane priority to fight.

With superior support speed and inherent combat strength, they can overcome all disadvantages in one wave.

But the problem now is that EDG isn't playing, and instead, this Ryze keeps moving towards the top half of the map.

It seems that only the tower below can be crossed now.

GRF quickly abandoned the idea.

Even in the early game, their lineup can't just dive the tower recklessly. A four-on-three tower dive obviously won't give them any significant advantage. If such a dive fails, the situation will undoubtedly fall apart.

Tower diving is an overly aggressive strategy, and the cautious GRF team never even considered doing it.

But if you don't do this, you won't know what to do.

Because they really couldn't find anything to do in the bottom jungle, is taking a dragon considered doing something? For an early-game composition like GRF, it's obviously not a big deal.

therefore.

Ten minutes later, the Rift Herald became a point that GRF had to contest.

It would be great if we could fight at the Rift Herald, but even if that doesn't work, we could take the Rift Herald and charge into the mid lane, then rely on good teamwork to take down the mid tower.

After that, without the protection of the mid-lane tower, both jungle areas were empty, and even if EDG wanted to play hide-and-seek with them, they couldn't defend against the attacks. So far, GRF's overall team strategy and thinking are clearly still on point.

But you can't stop people from committing crimes.

At 11 minutes, Chovy, who was alone, made a mistake that Bo shouldn't have made while pushing the lane.

That was pushing the lane too far alone when Camille and the bot lane duo had both recalled to base.

Chovy, believing he had E, Flash, and his ultimate, thought it wouldn't be a problem for him to push the lane.

But the next second he knew what was going on.

As the rune circle appeared below, Chovy, who was about to use his E skill to retreat, had just released the skill's animation when he was greeted by a Titan who flashed out from the mid-lane bush, used Q, and then followed up with his ultimate.

When her skills were suddenly interrupted and she didn't want to be knocked up, Lissandra instinctively used her ultimate to freeze herself.

Clearly, this is digging their own grave.

Because the next second, Lin Ruo from the upper half of the zone also arrived, making it impossible for the three-man team to escape.

Chovy fell just like that, falling in the crucial team fight for the Rift Herald.

While EDG was avoiding confrontation, they took full advantage of GRF's recall time to replenish their supplies and launched a major attack in the mid lane.

Next, it's a matter of numbers against fewer people.

Irelia had already prioritized taking the Rift Herald, and the rest of EDG, who had secured a kill in the mid lane, followed closely behind, giving the red side the advantage.

GRF is down a player, and the one they're missing is their biggest initiator. Their hopes of securing the Rift Herald, which they had initially thought would be a sure thing, have suddenly become slim.

Without Lissandra's cooperation in entering the fray, what's the difference between Camille going in alone and feeding the enemy?
But we can't not fight.

Considering Lissandra's teleport ability, GRF decided to stall a bit. They could give up the Rift Herald, but team fights had to be initiated to establish their advantage.

However, this advantage is not easy to build, because EDG is even more eager to fight than they are now.

Who said we were going to take Rift Herald? You're down to one person, and we'd be crazy enough to take Rift Herald?

At this point, EDG's real goal was to take advantage of GRF's smaller numbers and destroy them.

The result was ideal; GRF's timely feeding of kills was also quite timely.

Braum, positioned at the front, was hit by Varus's Chains of Corruption, followed by a hook from Nautilus, and then Xin Zhao stabbed in and activated his ultimate for defense. The team fight thus began with a clear objective.

Knowing that he couldn't avoid the fight, Tazan chose to use his E-Flash to control Varus, then locked him in with his ultimate, and then coordinated with Viper's Kai'Sa to fly in and engage.

If Camille is ganking bot lane alone, regardless of whether Varus has Flash or not, if he gets caught and Kai'Sa flies in, it's basically a hopeless situation.

But this isn't the bottom lane; this is the Rift Herald zone.

Kai'Sa entered the fray and instantly killed Varus. Lin Ruo would rather fight Sion than bother with him, because there was an Irelia who was more suitable to take down ADCs than him.

Even if Kai'Sa and Camille were together, they wouldn't be enough to defeat a single Irelia who already had a full set of gear. Going in would be no different than feeding kills.

In summary, GRF's team fight was a complete failure. They failed to take the initiative and were forced into engagements, missing their most important hero, Lissandra.

The team fights were characterized by insufficient control, inadequate damage output, and poor positioning, resulting in a one-sided defeat.

last of the last.

EDG not only secured the Rift Herald, but also achieved a resounding victory with a 3-for-1 trade.

GRF's early game lineup inexplicably fell into an economic deficit of over 3000 gold.

They failed to get things done, and when it was time to get things done, there weren't enough people.

With EDG securing the Rift Herald and immediately using it to push down the mid-lane tower, the situation has become far less favorable for GRF.

They can still use their lineup advantage to fight team battles.

But the problem is...

The loss of vision around the mid tower allowed EDG to control the situation. If you really want to fight, you can't just rush in and fight recklessly without considering vision.

Moreover, they have a lineup advantage, while EDG has an economic advantage at this point.

If the mid and top laners are both ahead by half an item, can you still say that Ryze has no damage at this point?
No, it's extremely harmful.

This means that even if a fight breaks out, GRF isn't guaranteed to win.

……

At this moment, GRF's head coach, McGee, was in a real bind in the locker room.

His pre-match vision of a fluid and unstoppable attack failed to materialize at all; instead, the team began to create despair for him from level 2 onwards.

They lost their best chance in the early game, and when they tried to fight EDG, they started to drift. Then they lost points, were outnumbered, gave away kills, and gave up the Rift Herald.

Even though their team had the best early-game composition, they still fell behind in both economy and level.

This is... a complete opposite of EDG's early game aggression in the first game.

Mai couldn't understand why the Korean netizens had gotten into the habit of criticizing her.

With such a good early-game lineup, they failed to execute a single good team fight. How can we not criticize them?
[What kind of nonsense is this? Why don't you just engage? If you can't, tower dive! Why shouldn't Lissandra and Camille tower dive?]

I feel completely dazed ever since the first wave of being outplayed.

Why is it that EDG always finds opportunities in the first game, while when we pick early-game compositions, not only do we fail to find opportunities, but sometimes even when we do, we still can't win?

[Chovy really doesn't understand. He was practically right in front of the enemy turret, how was he not going to get caught? He can't even fight the Rift Herald he gave away this time.]

[They're practically being crushed by EDG. Is this what our LCK number one seed is like? Why is it like this?]

There's still a chance. A good team fight 20 minutes ago could have turned the tide. This kind of disadvantage can actually be overcome in one team fight.

【You're right, so how should we play? Look at Chovy, he got forced to use Flash again in the jungle.】

[The top tower fell, Irelia went to the bottom lane to push, and the game is out of control.]

[Shouldn't we be picking off a single player at this point? Kai'Sa could even follow up with a free kick.]

What you said makes a lot of sense, but will they give you a chance?

...

Amidst the barrage of comments, South Korean netizens were already getting increasingly anxious.

In contrast, the atmosphere at the scene was much calmer, with very few South Korean audience members speaking up.

Before the match, the fans who had been united in their determination could only look on with helpless expressions, no longer even bothering to wave their GRF team flags.

Because they were rendered speechless by the beating.

The game had been going on for almost 15 minutes, and the team fight they were hoping for—Camille locking in her ultimate, Lissandra going in for crowd control, and Kai'Sa flying in to clean up—hadn't happened at all.

No, so you're telling me that this kind of team fight coordination can only exist in ideal scenarios?

So what's the point of picking this lineup?

(End of this chapter)