My buddy is actually a Cao Cao type top laner?

Chapter 198 Timing is like green tea, it can never be held onto.

soon.

With the preliminary procedures completed, the first match between the two sides began.

Whether LNG can gain an advantage over V5 depends largely on whether their draft picks in the first game are effectively shut down.

Nofe is clearly no pushover either.

Everyone's seen you use the same three tricks to climb from the end of the playoffs to the semifinals, so it's only natural to target you.

then.

One round of bans.

V5's strategy is very clear: LNG has three systems: the "lights-out" system, the "swinging pig" system, and the split-push system centered around Fiora.

Luo Ji doesn't care about playing Ale's Fiora, but the coach definitely wants to play it safe.

OK.

Then ban all of V5's champions like Yuumi, Wukong, and Fiora in one round, forcing the opposing team to ban V5's mid laner.

Followed by.

It's the game of who picks the best picks for both sides.

As mentioned earlier.

After patch 12.14, the elemental dragons received a buff, which means junglers now need to control the dragons for longer periods. The game has almost become a slow-paced game where the jungler acts as a support for the bot lane, and the focus is on the bot lane. Therefore, the first three picks should be the bot lane duo.

Taking this into consideration:
A round of PICK:

LNG: Zeli, Lulu, Crocodile

V5: Luna, Sejuani

Second round bans: Gwen, Kennen, Azir, Ahri

The fourth move was to let Rookie pick Taliyah.
Luo Ji has a somewhat wicked sense of humor. In his previous life, on the LNG side, the big streamer Doinb used his Taliyah triple lift in the gauntlet match to send the entire V5 team out of the World Championship.

In this life, V5 was given to Rookie Taliyah at Luo Ji's suggestion.

Huh~
At this moment, the roles of offense and defense have reversed.

Without Taliyah, LNG fell for the trap and ended up picking Zac and Gnar to replenish their AP.

V5 was not to be outdone.

Zac is picked to avoid being a melee carry, but once Zac is picked, Karsa's jungle becomes much safer, and Zac is somewhat underpowered in this patch.

In conclusion, V5's last pick was to lock in the female assassin for Luo Ji.

So far:

LNG: Top lane Gnar, Jungle Zac, Mid lane Renekton, Bot lane Zarya + Lulu
V5: Top lane Irelia, Jungle Sejuani, Mid lane Taliyah, Bot lane Luna

This time.

ALE has put on the mask of pain once again.

In versions 12.6 and 12.10, Blade of the Ruined King was nerfed in percentage, from 10% to 8% and then to 7%. However, in version 12.11, it was reverted back to 8%. Although it's not as overpowered as it was at 10%, it's still sufficient.

After all, it's a durability version.

Even a slight buff to percentage-based items can make certain heroes who rely on Blade of the Ruined King's passive ability appear particularly terrifying.

of course.

Choosing Aatrox is also an option. In version 12.15, Aatrox's passive healing was greatly nerfed, while his scaling health was strengthened, increasing the success rate of Aatrox's combo. With Starfall, he can play very aggressively. The downside is that he has no cooldown and is extremely squishy.

Luo Ji thought about it and still felt that Irelia was more suitable. Although Irelia missing her ultimate in a team fight is like being completely invisible, the purpose of this game is different.

Their goal this time is to win.

Irelia has an advantage against Gnar, and Taliyah in the mid lane is also a counter to Renekton. The only exception is the bot lane. Zyra is indeed good against Luna in the early game, but once Nami's Imperial Command comes out, the situation will instantly reverse.

In other words.

After about fourteen or fifteen minutes, once the Imperial order is issued, V5 will be advancing on three fronts.

this means.

Tazan faced immense early-game offensive pressure, yet he was playing Zac, a champion with little early-game invasion or fighting ability.

General.

"As expected, LNG revealed too much of their hand in the three best-of-five series."

Off camera.

Redmi calmly observed the draft picks and bans from both sides.

In the previous game, when LNG played against JDG, they lost because they had revealed all their cards, allowing Redmi to completely outmaneuver them in the draft phase, resulting in a loss that led to the gauntlet match.

This life.

The ideas are actually quite similar, the only difference is that 369 will build Aatrox, while Luo Ji can build a bunch of things to counter Gnar.

Start.

As usual, PPGOD, the support player, came up to help defend, while Luo Ji headed straight for the toilet on the top lane.

Because it's Zach's fault.

So even if the enemy invades the bottom half of the map to establish vision, it doesn't matter. Karsa isn't afraid of their invasion at all. If they really come, both sides will call for reinforcements, and in small-scale team fights, LNG won't be able to touch V5 at all.

[A familiar opening sequence - jpg]

[PPGOD seems to have gotten used to it by now. He just goes straight to the top lane as soon as the match starts, waits for the kill notification a few minutes later, and that's it.]

[Irelia vs. Gnar: Let's put it this way, if Irelia gets three low-health minions with her Q at the start of the game, she can auto-attack and kill the enemy Gnar all the way through.]

[Regarding the champion pool issue: in the top lane, only Fiora is decent; in the mid lane, there's Renekton, Akali, Yone, Taliyah, and maybe a few Sylas at most. Even with those extras, their skill level is nowhere near that of the junior player.]

This is the cruel reality of esports.

This is also why the Black Eight legend is so difficult.

The fact that the team was able to start from the bottom eight indicates that there is a problem with the team's overall strength. They have to resort to unconventional strategies, but unconventional strategies are limited. Multiple best-of-five matches will eventually deplete your unconventional strategies.

What happens after it's been hollowed out?

That would be no different from simply running naked.

Ale arrived at the lane in a very formulaic way at level one. In this game, he was quite bold and face-checked the top lane bush before the minion wave even arrived, trying to find the enemy Irelia's location.

but.
Not found. There was no sign of the enemy Irelia at all.

He hesitated to place the ward he had in his hand, fearing a gank from the enemy jungler, unlike Luo Ji, who placed his ward in the bush between the three bushes in the top lane from the very beginning, circling around Gnar.

It's still the ultimate skill of the dog head forum~
That's the trick.

In Kasa's eyes, he had somewhat lost his composure as a strongman.

"You're a grown man now, you don't need to start like this, it's so un classy."

"Prestige? Only winning makes you prestigious; losing just gets you criticized."

Luo Ji didn't care about any of that nonsense.

As long as he firmly occupies the toilet position, Ale won't be able to find where he is. Without knowing Irelia's location, Gnar won't dare to push the lane at level one, which gives him the opportunity to Q three melee minions at level one.

"You're really something, all wealth and money are equally divided, how despicable!"

"Thank you for the compliment."

Luo Ji's shameless behavior was unanimously endorsed by the team members.

Ale is in trouble here.

Because he couldn't see anyone when the minions arrived, he didn't dare to push the lane at level one. It wasn't until the three melee minions of the first wave were almost out of health that he finally pushed.

In the toilet.

Luo Ji's swordswoman then leisurely walked out.

"Swish" x4
With a triple dash, and even the fourth dash landing directly on Gnar's face, Luo Ji thought he could chase and hack away at the enemy, but in the next second he found that Gnar suddenly jumped backward.

Level 1 E!?
What the hell!

I thought that I was already a genius for squatting in the toilet at level 1, so who is this Gnar who is learning E at level 1?
"Holy crap, this is way too sneaky!"

Over there LNG.

Terrified and covered in a cold sweat, Ah Le couldn't help but curse out loud.

You actually squat in the toilet?!

As a so-called "young top laner" who debuted in S8, Ale has seen what kind of people the world's best top laners were like in the past.

They might not be able to beat you in a fight, but they're also incredibly reckless. Whether it's TheShy or Nuguri, they're openly using their skills to suppress you.

At most, TheShy suddenly fell ill for a period of time and became obsessed with long-range top laners beating short-range top laners.

But now.
A guy even more cunning than the one who uses long arms to fight short arms has arrived.

In the beginning of the world, people squat in the toilet to look for opportunities. The level of abstraction is comparable to buying eggs loose rather than in boxes in daily life, because they don't like boxed eggs.

"Just bear with it, he's actually been giving us a lot of face."

Doinb sighed and offered words of comfort.

"how do I say this?"

“I once went to his live stream to learn from him. According to him, our 'lights out' strategy could be easily broken by a single Mordekaiser.”

Ale: !!
It seems true.

Imagine Kennen, fully equipped and wiping out his ultimate with his mind filled with iconic moments of lightning strikes, only to be pulled into the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse by the enemy Mordekaiser the moment he takes his first step.

What does "discharge when the lights are off" mean?
I've just unplugged your circuit; now try discharging it and see what happens.

Such a comparison.

The level 1 Irelia squatting in the toilet is definitely much more cheerful than Mordekaiser's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

Gnar lost lane control at level 1, and the mid-lane Renekton couldn't do much against Taliyah's ranged attacks. Karsa, who had lane control in both lanes, maintained an extremely stable jungle clearing strategy in the early game.

The strategy of quickly taking down one lane in a row was not chosen.

Instead, they honestly followed the fast level 4 jungle farming route, with a Sejuani jungler focusing solely on farming in the early game. This approach would seem quite strange in most matches.

But that's how Casarte deals with Tazan.

he knows.

The opposing team must be scratching their heads trying to figure out where their Sejuani will gank, but he's doing the opposite.

You can do your counter-ganking, I'll level up on my own.

When they meet again, even without the help of her teammates, a level 4 Sejuani will be able to chase down a level 3 Zac.

Tazan fell for it.

There was no way to avoid being fooled; Karsa was determined to capitalize on Tazan's aggressive pace and his early-game focus on making plays.

So after level three.

Tazan immediately maneuvered Zac to counter-gank in the bottom lane.

but.
I was squatting there feeling lonely.

Forget about whether the enemy jungler would gank; he didn't even see a glimpse of the enemy jungler. It was all for nothing.

According to the rhetoric of cattle and horses:
In this match, Casarte focused on cultivating the lower-tier market, accurately targeting grassroots consumers, and exploring a differentiated market segment.

I kept going until I successfully completed a round and reached almost level four.

Only then did he slow down and start moving towards the top lane. He knew, of course, that this version was a version where the bottom lane was the scapegoat, and he also knew that a successful gank in the top lane would only result in one kill, unlike a successful gank in the bottom lane where two kills could be obtained, which would be much more rewarding.

But isn't this a case of the big guy being on the right track?
For the bottom lane.

He could only apologize and say: You are the kind of people whose looks grow on you, but I don't have the patience right now.

"My dream, can we gank top lane?"

"No problem, I'm stuck on the line anyway, you can come over."

Because it's a variable speed.

At this point, Gnar's first transformation had ended, and he was currently in his mini-Gnar form. However, the minion wave had not yet fully pushed into the turret, and Luo Ji, relying on his level one health advantage, used his health to trade for lane control and defend.

opportunity!

Opportunities are like green tea; you can never hold onto them forever.

However, Karsa didn't care, because he never intended to stay. Instead, he approached the top lane with the mindset that he would consider it a success as long as he had experienced it.

(End of this chapter)