My buddy is actually a Cao Cao type top laner?

Chapter 267 Who doesn't eat dumplings during the New Year?
The second one.

V5's draft picks surprised T1.

A round of ban:

T1: Heimerdinger, Sylas, Miss Fortune

V5: Cat, Lucian, Lenata
Strangely, V5 let Varus through in the second game. Although I don't understand why, if you let him through, there's no reason not to pick him.

then:

A round of PICK:

T1: Varus, Lulu, Maokai

V5: Ashe, Sejuani, Azir

Second round of bans: Lux, Zilean, Jax, Gwent

Bengi stared into thought as he looked at V5's draft picks. He had tried his best to remove supports that could synergize with Ashe and push Varus and Lulu lanes.

But I don’t know why.

Seeing that the opponent's last two bans were Gwent and Jax, he suddenly felt like he had been tricked again.

Is it an illusion?

With their fourth move, V5 finally unleashed their killer move.

Caitlyn, the Piltover Policewoman, has been successfully locked on!
"and many more!"

"What? V5 is planning on using two AD carries?!"

"Two AD carries contesting lanes with Varus and Lulu? What's the meaning of this?"

The moment V5 successfully played their fourth pick.

Not only those at the competition venue, but also the audience, commentators, and even the players watching from outside the screen, all instinctively gasped in surprise.

and many more!

If that's the case, Bengi suddenly understands why V5 ​​dropped Jax and Gwent in their last two picks, because these two pose a huge threat to the backline of a team with multiple AD carries.

Similarly, there's Zhao Xin in the jungle, but their jungler has already chosen Maokai.

"Wow, what's wrong with Mebius's brain?"

"If the mage support is banned and the enchanter support can't push the lane, then should we use two marksmen to push the lane?"

"wrong!"

"They set this up beforehand, deliberately releasing the female police officer, Ice Verus, because they were sure we would fall for it."

I'm a little dizzy from T1.

However, with a lineup that has many backline units, they must fill in the gaps and initiate team fights.

The last two moves were Crocodile and Akali.

No matter what.

This was exactly what Luo Ji and Nofe had planned.

V5 pulled out Jayce as their last pick, and now, top lane [Domain Deployment] – "You have been stripped of your jungle carry!"

So far:

T1: Top lane Renekton, Jungle Maokai, Mid lane Akali, Bot lane Varus + Lulu
V5: Top lane Jayce, Jungle Sejuani, Mid lane Azir, Bot lane Caitlyn + Ashe
Cover up the ID.

Who would have thought that this was the lineup they would field in the World Championship semifinals?
In the first game, Sivir and Heimerdinger pushed the lane; in the second game, they continued pushing with double AD. If they kept going like that, who knows what else they'd pull out of their pants.

"Speaking of which, aren't we going a bit too far?"

PPGOD put itself in the shoes of Little Lu Bu and Keria, and both felt that their side was very different from the others.

Two in a row.

Not a single game involved direct confrontation with the opponent; it was all about technology and ruthless tactics.

People from LCK traveled all the way here wanting to try a local specialty, but after taking a bite, it tasted like nothing more than pre-made food!
"How can you say it's excessive?"

Luo Ji shook his head and said, "Do you know what the next line after 'Those who achieve great things' is?"

"Not particular about details?"

"No, it's ruthless. Compared to the opponent, we are so weak on paper. Before the competition, not many people outside the industry were optimistic about us. As the weaker side, it's reasonable for us to disregard martial ethics, right?"

"Azhe."

Here.

Coach Nofe gave the players some final instructions before they left the field.

That end.

The camera in the live stream had already quietly noticed Xiao Yan, who was in the AD position, with his hands clasped together as if in prayer.

This world championship was undoubtedly a huge shock to Xiao Yan.

He thought he had some talent in the AD position, but after experiencing Ruler and the World Championship version of Lu Bu, he finally realized that...

Even geniuses are divided into different levels.

Just like in a certain game called Honor of Kings, after you've gone through all the hardships to climb from Bronze to King, you realize that King is just the beginning.

even
People will call you a lowlife.

The double marksman bot lane not only puts a lot of pressure on the 1v1 Jayce in the top half of the map, but also tests the double AD carry in the bottom half of the map. This lineup is all about quickly pushing towers, rotating lanes to accumulate resources, and relying on economic advantage to defeat the opponent in team fights.

after all.

Team fights with two AD carries are actually not as easy as those with a normal AD carry and support.

He naturally had no doubt about the strength of his own team's top laner.

All he could think about at that moment was to avoid dragging the team down as much as possible. From the playoffs until now, he and PPGOD had never been recognized by LPL viewers in terms of their strength.

And now.

A mere moment of devotion and resolve is enough to move people; perhaps this is the charm of esports.

"Photic, you're starting to summon the gods." Remember stared blankly at Xiao Yan, whose eyes were closed, on the screen.

That burning desire to win.

Even through a screen, everyone's faces are clearly visible.

"It's understandable, really. V5's bot lane duo has always been slightly inferior to the other three positions, and has always been targeted as a weak point," Miller remarked.

"Yes."

The colonel nodded and said with deep feeling:

"However, we must be clear that not everyone is born a king. Most people in this world are ordinary people who have some talent in a certain field but are not particularly outstanding. We also have the right to pursue better."

"Success is not defined by reaching the top of the mountain." "Like birds that are born unable to fly, when they flap their wings and prepare to take flight, they have already broken the shackles of fate."

"Lack of talent is a shackle, not a failure."

What are you praying for when you put your hands together in prayer? What are you thinking about when you close your eyes and exhale?
Is it that I haven't achieved what I've been hoping for, and I can't stop here? Or is it that the victory I've been longing for is right in front of me, and I choose to believe in myself?

No.

The competition isn't over yet!
Rookie and Casa exchanged a glance, and a knowing smile appeared on their faces.

All competitive sports share a common characteristic: a person's emotions are perfectly reflected in their efforts.

This desire to win.

They truly felt it.

soon.

Game start.

In this match, Luo Ji is still playing a counter-pick role in lane. There's no need for him to follow any conventional strategies to have a fair fight with the opponent. He is the only strongest solo laner in V5. If he doesn't take advantage of this advantage and instead gives it up, that would be putting the cart before the horse.

As for laning?

It was played entirely with feet.

Aside from needing to guard against crocodiles ambushing from bushes at level one, in the early game, ranged champions completely dominate melee champions. Even though Jayce's base attack damage has been nerfed to a pit, his range means that a Jayce who can get free auto-attacks is always equivalent to half an ADC in the top lane.

Zeus was also somewhat surprised.

Even if Jayce can dominate the early game, if he doesn't farm the lane, isn't he afraid of being ganked by the jungler when the time comes?

It wasn't just Zeus who thought this way.

wild area.

Even Oner, who manipulates the tree, has the same idea.

However.
Just as he was planning how to gank Jayce, he suddenly noticed that the health of his teammates on the small icons in the bottom right corner was visibly decreasing, which made him subconsciously glance at the bottom lane.

It would have been better if I hadn't looked. Once I did, I saw that V5's two AD carries were aggressively trading blows and pushing the lane in the bottom lane.

and.

He seemed completely unafraid of being ganked by the jungler.

This?
in fact.

It's quite simple to put yourself in the shoes of Little Lu Bu and Keria.

Female police officer, range 650.
Ice, range 600
Varus, range 575
Lulu, attack range 550
As the saying goes, "an inch longer, an inch stronger." If you lack strength, make up for it with range. With an absolute advantage in attack range, V5's bottom lane duo could auto-attack the enemy, but the opposing T1's bottom lane duo had a hard time auto-attacking V5.
Simultaneously.

The slow effect of Ashe's W skill can increase the hit rate of Caitlyn's Q skill.

The consequence of this combination is...

T1's bot lane couldn't win lane swaps or trade blows. They were already pushed out of the last-hitting zone by the second wave of minions.

and.

In the mid lane, Akali has absolutely no lane priority against Azir in the early game.

While maintaining lane control, Faker noticed that Rookie would almost always head towards the bottom river after pushing the lane. Regardless of whether he actually went there or not, it was like a "boy who cried wolf" scenario in the Rift.

It's good that I didn't go.

But what if I actually go?
With the bottom lane pushing the lane like this, the jungler can come over, and the mid laner can go over, and a four-man gank can be completed in no time.

From Oner's perspective, he naturally couldn't just watch V5 disrupt their AD carry's rhythm by ganking bot lane, so he had no choice but to go down and protect them.

But I went down by myself.

What about Jayce in the top lane? Are we just going to watch him suppress Renekton like this?

In the DRX team.

BeryL, the Genshin Impact fan, had his eyes shining as he watched V5's actions.

This system was actually developed by him in the original world, but that was at the end of S12 and the beginning of S13, in short, after the World Championship.

But now.

The premature birth, thanks to Luo Ji's "borrowing," still greatly shocked him.

"Hard supports are not as useful as enchanter supports in the current version. Enchanter supports are not as good at pushing lanes as marksman supports. The key point is that as long as a marksman support is picked, regardless of whether the enemy jungler wants it or not, the bot lane will be a 4v4, otherwise the bot lane will be completely destroyed."

"in other words."

"In this game, neither jungler can comfortably manage the top lane matchup."

"No wonder they're picking Sejuani, no wonder they're picking Jayce."

"genius!"

If you gank the top or bottom lane, you'll get tower-dived, resulting in a 1-for-2 trade, which is a huge loss for T1.

If you protect the top laner, they'll get solo-killed; ranged attacks will beat melee, and you'll get free turret plating.

The fundamental reason why this playstyle is possible is that the Spellthief's Blade is ridiculously overpowered in this version, granting 20 gold per trigger, a number that has only changed between 10, 12, and 15 in previous versions.

at the moment.

Ashe can easily reach the T1 bot lane duo and keep accumulating the prize pool.

However, T1's bot lane duo couldn't get close to him much. Spellthief's gold gain was only about half that of V5's team, unless they actively came up and traded health for it.

This means even more.

Ashe will get her gear complete quite early, including a warding item.

T1 here.

Despite their draft being outmaneuvered and their bottom lane not being a good match against the opposing bottom lane duo, Xiao Lu Bu initially thought that with his strong skills, he should be able to close the gap by relying on his fundamentals. But for some reason...

It was just a halftime break.

The enemy AD carry, Caitlyn, seemed like a completely different player. Her distance control was much better, and her overall gameplay became inexplicably smoother.

Evolving in battle?
He thought it was unlikely. After studying V5's matches, he realized that the opposing AD carry didn't have that kind of talent.

That leaves only one possibility.

In the early years of NBA games, there were many mediocre players who would suddenly have a breakout performance in a particular game or period of time, dominating the field. This phenomenon was so common that NBA viewers gradually became accustomed to it.

And in the face of such occasional outbreaks.

finally.

It is affectionately called by the audience of major sports events: "Who doesn't eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year?"

but
Why now of all times?!

(End of this chapter)