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Chapter 558 JK, are you going to do research and development?
This is an exaggeration.

Although Akali is strong in fights, there are too many mages who can suppress her in lane.

This person must be incredibly confident in their laning ability to have chosen this pick.

Even though the champion's name is Scout, a top player, picking Akali as the first pick seems a bit presumptuous.

Guan Zeyuan didn't quite understand.

However, this did not prevent EDG from locking in their pick within two seconds of it being announced, making them the first pick for the blue side.

Akali, you're really kidding me!

I remember being quite surprised myself.

Akali is a champion that requires a lot of skill. Putting aside the fact that the laning phase is difficult, her margin for error is unbelievably low.

Let's just put it that way.

You can't get any kills in the early game, and in the mid-to-late game you'll be sitting at the same table as the crocodile.

No, no, it's not even as good as the crocodile. At least the latter can act as a super minion to absorb some damage.

What's the point of Akali? Are you going to go in, set up a smoke screen, and try to break through the enemy's shield?
All I can say is that he was very brave.

This also prompted IG to change their first pick.

Kim Jung-soo, who originally wanted JK to play Kai'Sa, saw this Akali and promptly switched Kai'Sa to Xayah, otherwise there was a real risk of being eliminated.

Furthermore, since Rakan wasn't picked in the previous three moves, picking Xayah also helps to break up the Xayah-Rakan combo.

Of course, they can choose both.

However, IG did not make that choice; their strategy for this game absolutely could not be to let the bottom lane become a problem any longer.

Therefore, they decided to select Leona as the support to strengthen the bot lane's ability to withstand pressure and roam.

Leona's biggest advantage over Rakan is her stability and durability, making her a viable front-line tank in the early to mid-game.

Kim Jeong-soo, who had originally planned to pick a jungler first, saw that EDG hadn't picked a single jungler.

There's no rush to choose a jungler.

He always believes that EDG isn't in a hurry, and neither is he. Otherwise, what if they get caught out again, like when Viktor builds Ryze?

Anyway, there's still one last pick left after the first three, so he wants to see what EDG will pick next.

When the choice was in EDG's hands, seeing that IG had not locked in Rakan, they naturally prioritized picking Rakan, and then took out Ezreal to go bot.

"This is…"

Wang Duoduo suddenly discovered.

Both sides seem to be playing at the same pace in this game.

Let's leave the bot lane to our own devices and go top.

Yes, Ezreal is already out, you don't expect us to check on the bot lane, do you?

Then IG can rest assured, because we also want to qualify.

It's okay, our Xayah is even stronger in the late game.

"Okay, let me win this damn championship with Ezreal."

When iboy got EZ, he felt an all-too-familiar feeling.

They're still resilient to pressure and don't feel any stress.

That's how I got here from the league, then I played carry heroes for a while at the World Championship, and now I'm going back to playing tanky heroes.

Asking if iboy feels any pressure is impossible; he clearly doesn't feel any pressure at all.

Just focus on dealing damage in the bottom lane.

Whenever Ezreal or Sivir is picked, iboy knows that Lin Ruo, as the jungler, needs to focus all his attention on one half of the map.

All he had to do was relax, let Tian Yelu follow him to roam the bottom lane, and then quietly win.

IG thought the same way: they would ignore the bottom half of the bracket and focus on the top half.

Therefore, seeing that EDG's intentions were so obvious, they stopped pretending and directly locked in Irelia on the third floor, a champion that should have been picked in the counter position.

Both sides were clearly fully armed at this moment.

...

After the first round of selection, both sides entered the second round of bans. EDG finally made their move on the jungler position, banning Taliyah and Xin Zhao one after another, banning both of the most commonly used heroes in the current version.

IG, on the other hand, disabled Shen to prevent EDG from making extreme initiations, such as Akali bringing Shen with his ultimate into the fray, which would pose a significant threat.

At the same time, he pressed the button for Fiora.

The meaning behind pressing Fiora's ultimate move seems self-evident.

In the first game, IG also picked Irelia for top lane, but due to the appearance of Fiora, they were forced to switch to mid lane and instead gave TheShy Sion.

Therefore, the meaning of pressing Fiora this time is very clear.

IG picked Irelia, so we definitely can't let you pick Fiora to suppress us.

And I will suppress you in return.

Therefore, IG did not immediately pick a jungler on the fourth floor after this ban.

Instead, they first targeted the Trickster.

"LeBlanc?" Guan Zeyuan, in the commentary booth, immediately expressed the same shocked expression as when EDG picked Akali.

"LeBlanc vs. Akali in the mid lane, what an exciting assassin battle!"

Wang Duoduo shook his head with a smile.

He couldn't even imagine how exciting such a plot would be.

Is LeBlanc going to engage Akali on sight? Or is it a race to see who can take down the backline faster? Either way, the fight is more entertaining.

It seems like a real free-for-all is about to begin, especially if another jungler joins the fray at this point…

"The Blind Monk? Ahhh!"

On the other side of the LCK commentary booth, it was now the Roaring Emperor's turn to scream.

Because right after IG picked LeBlanc on the fourth floor, EDG's fourth floor immediately locked in Lee Sin.

Oh no, now it's purely a matter of skill between the two teams, no technique is needed at all.

"Lin Ruo has picked Lee Sin, and it seems that both sides have entered a mode where they can pick whatever they want to play."

The Roaring Emperor couldn't help but sigh.

If you tell me that Akali and Lee Sin need to coordinate, that's absolutely nonsense.

These two pairs are clearly competing to see who can kill faster; there's no other similarity between them.

Therefore, the lineups of both sides appear to everyone to be a trend of wide-ranging and aggressive play.

Fortunately, EDG's fifth player played it safe and didn't pick any more lane-dominating champions. Knowing that the team needed a frontline, they chose Ornn for GimGoon.

This top lane tank, which was once the most popular top lane tank this year, has seen its usability decline significantly after the World Championship due to the rise of fighter tanks like Urgot.

But in this game, Urgot and Aatrox were both banned, making Ornn the most suitable choice.

Laning against Irelia isn't that bad; you just need to play defensively and you can easily lose 20 or 30 CS.

Besides, Lin Ruo will come to arrest him.

As a top laner, GimGoon is least afraid of being under pressure.

I'll fight my own battles, but that won't stop me from messing with you.

With IG picking the versatile nuke jungler Gragas on the fifth floor, this fiercely contested draft phase officially came to an end.

The lineups on both sides look exactly the same.

In the early game, we'll just play our own game, and as for the two ADCs in the bottom lane, they can just stay put.

Guan Zeyuan was no longer able to comment. He only knew that if the number of kills on both sides did not exceed 20, it would be considered a failure, and if it exceeded 30, it might be considered a success.

Just like the comments in the current live stream, it's all about being exciting.

Will this match go on from start to finish?

[I don't know, but I think the mid lane will definitely be like this, it'll be a fight from start to finish. I suggest both junglers not help each other, I just want to see who gets a solo kill.]

[If you want EDG to die, just say so. They're both assassin champions, but Akali has short range, how can she fight against a long-range LeBlanc?]

[So you want IG to die? If Lin Gou comes, LeBlanc will explode within 10 minutes.]

LPL viewers may not know this, but they do know that whenever Lin Ruo picks Lee Sin, there will always be a top-notch, entertaining play.

Have you forgotten that eye flash W?
Even if Xia can give you most of the time, you can't press it out, kick it back first.

So when Lin Ruo played Lee Sin, the audience watched with wide eyes, afraid of missing any details.

Of course, even if you stare intently most of the time, you'll still miss some plays. You can only catch them by watching videos from Bilibili creators, pausing and analyzing them word by word after the match.

Since that's the case, well, when I kill someone, I'll just type "666" in the comments and that's it.

I won't look at anything more.

"Alright everyone, the draft phase is over for both sides. This game, which will determine the world champion, is about to begin. Let's take stock of the lineups for both sides."

Watching the two coaches shake hands again, Guan Zeyuan, commentator, took a deep breath:

"EDG (blue side): top laner Ornn, jungler Lee Sin, mid laner Akali, bot lane duo Ezreal and Rakan."

"Red team IG, top lane Irelia, jungle Gragas, mid lane LeBlanc, bot lane duo Xayah and Leona."

"Will EDG win another game and lift the Summoner's Cup to achieve a historic back-to-back championships, or will IG fight back to tie the score and keep the championship suspense until the very last moment? Let's wait and see!"

The words fell.

There was a roaring tsunami at the scene.

Everyone in the Wenhe Arena was shouting and cheering loudly, especially after the ten players from both sides entered Summoner's Rift, when the shouts reached their peak.

The sound was so loud that the players on both sides could faintly hear it through their headphones.

"Go, go, brothers!"

The EDG players, who had just entered the Rift, encouraged each other in voice chat.

Want a fifth game? Forget it, the fourth game is the end of the line.

"The top, mid, and jungle areas of both sides will definitely be very intense in this game. GimGoon is still brave. He wanted to go into the red buff area as soon as he logged in, but there was an Irelia waiting to take him down."

Remember to follow along with the explanation.

The three commentators focused their attention almost entirely on the top, mid, and jungle positions.

They knew that the camera would most likely focus on the top, mid, and jungle lanes, and there was nothing particularly surprising about the bot lane.

JK was spotted in a very unusual spot, near the blue team's triangular grass area in the middle of the river.

Clearly, this stems from concerns that Lin Ruo, the blind monk, might suddenly turn the tables and arrest him.

After all, in the second game, the only game IG has won so far, the reason IG was able to win was because Ning's Kindred suddenly ganked bot lane at level two, which opened up the game for them.

With the original factory director, who was the pioneer of the two-tiered system, in charge, it's not impossible for Lin Ruo to pull off something like this.

They might say they're focusing on the top and jungle, but if they can gank the bot lane, who wouldn't? That's why JK specifically placed this ward to prevent Lin Ruo's surprise attack.

This time, unsurprisingly, he did more harm than good.

Lin Ruo, who was soloing the red monster, originally didn't want to do anything to gank it, but the spies planted in the river area made him change his mind.

With this river ward, as long as I don't appear from the river, won't your IG bot lane duo think I didn't come, and then relax and push the lane like crazy at level 1?

possible.

So Lin Ruo chose to go down after level two, enter the triangular grass, and then walk through the wall to the edge of the line.

Great, I won't walk along the river.

I can just go down the path next to the tower and gank you guys there.

Of course, this gank has very strict prerequisites; the IG duo must be pushing the lane very aggressively.

However, if Meng Linruo hadn't come, she wouldn't have come.

"Lin Shen, is this how you play at a crucial moment? I'm still watching the top, mid, and jungle, but the bot lane isn't about to get first blood, is it?"

Guan Zeyuan was already excited.

He mainly thinks these signs are really possible.

At this point, the IG duo had almost pushed the minion wave to the entrance of the side lane through their superior strength, and Xayah's position didn't seem to be far away either.

JK, who always liked to show his face, was already ahead of Leona, using his Q skill to harass EZ. Just as he stepped out of the minion wave area, a long-awaited Sonic Wave was accurately thrown out from the dim vision of the wall.

"Hit!"

The moment the sonic wave struck, the three commentators in the commentary booth shouted in unison.

The initial silence was replaced by a burst of enthusiastic cheers.

When the battle-hardened EDG fans saw Lin Ruo's skill hit, they had practically given Xayah an absolute death sentence in their minds.

Why did you run away?
Somewhat panicked, JK, having Flash and Heal available, naturally wanted to run. To avoid maximizing damage, he planned to Flash back as soon as Lee Sin kicked him, thus avoiding the subsequent continuous attacks.

The imagination is beautiful, but reality is cruel.

The Lee Sin kicked in, and Xayah flashed, but it was a two-person flash.

Lin Ruo didn't use Flash, so he gained another dash because Xayah had already misjudged the situation and Flashed before he could kick, so he inevitably Flashed along with the Lee Sin who hadn't been kicked yet.

Despite her nervousness, JK ultimately couldn't dodge the attack and instead suffered maximum damage.

His only consolation was that a level 2 Lee Sin couldn't slow him down with his ground slam, so he could only keep chasing him with auto-attacks. Fortunately, he had Heal to create distance between them.

Baolan's Leona used her E to stop Lee Sin from continuing his pursuit.

However, it is clear that this approach did not have a significant effect.

Because Xia's Flash had stopped working at this point.

All it took was Tian Yelu's Flash to keep him in place, and then Lin Ruo used Lee Sin's W skill to poke him in and continue to apply basic attacks, quickly reducing Xayah's remaining health to zero.

First blood.

The first blood was drawn just two minutes into the game.

"Lin Shen got the first blood, we're doomed."

Guan Zeyuan always felt that he had to say that most classic quote right from the start.

I have a feeling the game is already over.

Yes, as everyone knows, matches where Lin Ruo gets the first blood are always ruthless massacres.

Will this meeting be an exception? It's hard to say.

But JK's mentality was clearly in a state of collapse at this moment. He had already used up all his skills at level 1, but the problem was that others had also used them up.

He might still have an easy time in the bottom lane, since the opponent is a relatively weak Ezreal in the early game.

However, once Lee Sin uses that kill's gold to gank teammates in other lanes, such as top lane.

Then the rhythm is obviously not good.

This game could very well be the last; they have no room for error left.

Therefore, this could very well ruin today's long-awaited final.

Regardless, the game must go on.

Seizing the opportunity presented by Lee Sin's presence in the bottom half of the map and using it to invade the top side of the map to steal the blue buff is the only countermeasure Ning can take.

Lin Ruo was equally bold. He had already guessed that since he wasn't in the top jungle, Ning would definitely take advantage of Irelia pushing the lane to go in and steal the blue buff. So without saying a word, he took the river crab in the bottom half of the jungle and followed him in to steal the blue buff.

They also asked GimGoon to place a ward in the jungle to scout out the exact location of Gragas.

If the Gragas dares to eat the toad in the top half of the deck, then he'll eat the toad in the bottom half.

Prince Ning wasn't that greedy; after taking the blue item, he chose to retreat wisely to protect himself.

Lin Ruo was quite greedy, but with a Leona harassing him nearby, he couldn't continue farming. He turned around and farmed the F6 camp, thus ending his journey in the lower half of the map.

Just when everyone thought Lin Ruo would resupply after returning to the city and head to the upper half of the region...

Lin Ruo silently followed the bottom lane minions towards the bottom lane at level 3.

Guan Zeyuan was stunned in the commentary booth.

"Wait, what happened to the top, mid, and jungle lanes? Why aren't you ganking the top lane with an Irelia? Why are you going to the bottom lane instead?"

He was a little dumbfounded, and at the same time, he secretly prayed for IG's bot lane duo. Then, he suddenly blurted out, "I feel like we're doomed. If IG's bot lane duo hadn't anticipated this, and they got caught again, they'd really be doomed."

In fact, the probability of this is quite high.

Because neither Xayah nor Leona had Flash. After all, Baolan used his E to control Lee Sin in the previous wave to cover Xayah's retreat, so their only option to escape was to use Flash.

In this situation, it seems that as long as Rakan gets lifted, one of the IG duos will inevitably explode.

Before Lin Ruo went online, Tian Ye promptly activated the scan and cleared the vision of the grass.

So when Lin Ruo pushed the lane, he took advantage of the vision to enter the bush, and the IG bot lane duo, who were still laning at that time, were completely unaware of it.

They didn't know that after the Lee Sin had cleared all the jungle camps in the bottom half of the map, and even after he had already cleared their duo lane once, he would suddenly choose to come back for a second wave of attacks after recalling.

In short, I'm addicted.

The truth is, addiction can indeed have its benefits.

Because catching two people who don't have a dodge button is too easy.

Luo seized the opportunity when the two were close together, and with a light lift, Lin Ruo controlled the Blind Monk to ward out of the bush and use E to flash and slam the ground to slow down the two.

The IG duo suddenly didn't know where to run.

EZ jumped onto his face.

Three burly men chased after Xayah and beat her relentlessly, and Leona, standing nearby, couldn't stop them no matter how hard she tried.

It wasn't until Xayah died that Baolan realized he shouldn't have tried to persuade her, because with Xayah gone, it seemed like he, the Leona, would be the next one to get beaten up.

Yes.

They didn't think they could escape, did they?

Xayah had already killed so badly that Lin Ruo didn't even need to use her Q skill, so she deliberately placed her Sonic Wave on the somewhat tanky Leona at the end, and then used White Smite to slow her down again.

Lin Ruo then chased after the turret, but stopped after taking some damage from it.

The early-level defensive towers are very damaging; he can't withstand a second hit.

but it does not matter.

Even Leona couldn't withstand a second hit.

Rakan used his Q skill to throw a feather in, followed by Ezreal's ranged auto-attack and Mystic Shot outside, and iboy easily secured the first kill of the game.

Since then.

Just five minutes into the game, IG's bot lane duo had already died a total of three times.

This isn't just bad, it's downright awful.

Fortunately, Ning was not idle at this time either, and cooperated with Rookie's LeBlanc to carry out a gank in the mid lane.

First, Rookie gained the upper hand in the attrition, and then he used his chain to blindly lock Akali in the fog, so that even if Scout was in the fog, he still had nowhere to hide.

Although Scout flashed into the tower at the last moment when he was chained, he still couldn't escape Ning's Gragas's perfectly timed E-flash belly hit, followed by a W followed by a Q to secure the kill.

IG finally secured their first kill in the mid lane.

Ning, having secured a kill, wanted to see what the bottom lane was doing at the same time.

I was shocked when I looked. It turned out that he had accidentally given away two more kills. So the kill he got would only be half of what he was looking for.

What a guy.

Two of the kills went to Lee Sin, and Ning knew without even looking that the lower jungle had fallen.

Half of the joy of securing a kill was wasted, and I couldn't help but question in voice chat: "What are you doing, bot lane?"

JK feeding kills is nothing new, and Ning is already used to it.

But this is really unusual, because it can't really be blamed on the bot lane duo. After all, who would have thought that after clearing the bottom half of the jungle, a Lee Sin who recalled to base wouldn't go to clear the top half of the jungle, but would instead choose to come to the bottom lane again?

Of course, JK also knew that without Flash, they might continue to be targeted.

But it's really not right to just focus on catching every wild animal without even letting them spawn. Are you treating us like the Japanese?

Okay, if that's the case, then you've done it.

Our bot lane is destroyed, are you satisfied now?
Lin Ruo was indeed satisfied. He knew JK was easy to catch, but he didn't expect it to be this easy.

It's alright, Lin Ruo has decided not to come to the bottom lane anymore. His true favorite is still TheShy.

Only by eliminating Irelia and forcing her to start developing the i-series can IG truly be finished.

Catching JK isn't very useful to a certain extent, since apart from that flash forward move, JK has been more of a mediocre player in this IG team all year.

However, with such a thorough crackdown this time, even a scoundrel would be brought down.

So Lin Ruo's next task was to gank the top lane, but Ning Wang, who had already started the game, was a step ahead of him and made his move in the top lane as soon as he reached level 6.

Ning adopted the most traditional sacrificial ganking strategy, which is to ensure that Irelia can develop even if he himself is not doing well. That's why Ning dared to tower dive Ornn.

At this point in time, it's easy to imagine how difficult it would be for one or two people to escape unscathed.

Therefore, Ning chose to trade 1 for 1, allowing TheShy's Irelia to get the kill by stepping on his corpse.

Jin Gong was already being very cautious; he wouldn't put himself in danger even if he lost a cannon minion. But little did he know that someone would be willing to dive the tower to trade with him.

While it's true that he can't get as many kills as Irelia, does that mean your Gragas's farm isn't important?
Of course it matters.

When Lin Ruo saw Ning Wang leap over the tower in such a way, only one thought came to her mind.

If you play support like that, then I'm going to have to teach you a lesson.

After all, Ning is the kind of player who, even if his Gragas build is terrible, will still go for the nuke build.

People like this still make such sacrifices.

There was no other way, so Lin Ruo could only let Ning Wang experience what it meant to have a significant economic disadvantage in a position.

(End of this chapter)