LPL History

Chapter 216 The Imperial Envoy Returns to the Mountain to Attack the Holy Army; Zhou Yu Wields His Hammer and Breaks Through the Iron Formation

"Viewers watching the live stream, you are now watching the 2014 League of Legends Pro League Summer Split playoffs, between EDG Esports Club and WE.A Esports Club! I'm your commentator, Miller!"

"I'm the commentator, Waa!"

"I'm Bella, the commentator!"

As both teams took to the field, a sea of ​​red once again swept through the stands.

"In their previous encounters, WE.A had already won two games and had reached match point in this BO5! The WE.A players are probably feeling quite relaxed right now. But EDG is under immense pressure! They need to win three straight games if they want to secure the victory!"

Hearing Miller's words, Bella nodded and said:

"Yes, we saw that EDG made another substitution in this match point game, replacing Ai Luoli who came on as a substitute in the previous game and putting Clearlove back in the jungle position. It seems that EDG was not very satisfied with the substitution in the previous game!"

The child spoke:

"In short, EDG is now backed to the brink of elimination. Hopefully, they can come up with something new in this crucial match. Otherwise, given the current state of both teams, I honestly find it hard to see any hope of EDG winning!"

Bella continued:
"To be honest, every time I watch WE.A's matches, I have a feeling that it's not real," Miller said with a smile. "Who would have thought that this team is just WE's youth training team? A few months ago, they were even in the second division! And now, WE's first team failed to make it to the playoffs, but they did! They even set a record of sixteen consecutive wins in the regular season, and now they have eighteen consecutive wins! And EDG, as the champion of the Spring Split, has not won a single game against this dark horse that came up from LSPL. Instead, they have become the challengers!"

EDG player seats.

The factory manager, who had regained his chance to play, looked serious. He chose to skip the evolution with one click and went straight into Dark Kai mode.

After being substituted by Abu in the last game, Clearlove finally realized that if he were to produce something again, it would be impossible to rely on Abu.

It must be admitted that even from God's perspective in the previous game, the factory manager couldn't find many ways to counter Zhou Li.

However, the fact that he can't target Zhou Li doesn't mean he can't target the other members of WE.A.

League of Legends is a five-player game.

In the manager's opinion, apart from Zhou Li, the other four players of WE.A are all exceptionally talented, but in terms of match experience, they are absolutely no match for EDG.

For example, Sima Laozei and Xiye play too aggressively in the mid lane, often giving opponents opportunities.

For example, when Khan is playing solo, he sometimes gets carried away and pulls the line too deep.

For example, when Xiaoming plays a support hero, he is clearly not as skilled as when he plays a tank support hero.

If we can make good use of the weaknesses of each player in WE.A and then target them precisely, without letting go of any opportunity, then WE.A is not invincible.

If the factory manager was giving 100% focus in the previous games, then in this final game, he will definitely need to give 200% focus.

Of course, the outcome of a game is still too difficult to control, and he can only do his best, but he definitely needs to hold onto his KDA this time.

In this way, even if he loses the game, he will naturally have fans defending him afterward.

"Ban Lulu."

The factory manager began issuing orders.

Seeing that EDG immediately banned Lulu, Xiye smiled and subconsciously said:

"Holy crap, I finally don't have to play Lulu anymore."

After all, he's been playing Lulu almost constantly in his matches lately, and Lulu is a hero that doesn't really require much skill to play, so he's probably getting tired of playing her.

"What do you mean?" X3
Such outrageous remarks immediately drew questioning from the other three ethics inspectors.

The Khan spoke:

"Brother Zhou let you play with Lulu, aren't you satisfied?"

Zhou Li sighed. Zhuge Mingkai had indeed begun to exert his strength.

He wanted to play Poppy, but Poppy's jungle clearing ability wasn't particularly strong, so it really depended on whether his teammates could gain lane priority.

Otherwise, if the enemy jungler invades, you will be in a very passive position.

Therefore, Lulu is the core hero in the Poppy jungle system that Tabe built in two minutes.

However, since they are on the red side in this game, they can only react to whatever comes their way.

After seeing WE.A eliminate Angel, the factory manager continued:

"Ban Jess".

"EDG has banned Jayce! That's a rather unusual ban! We know that Jayce isn't a very popular top lane champion in the current patch. But Khan has played Jayce in a few games during the regular season! This ban is probably targeting Khan..."

In the commentary booth, upon hearing Miller's words, the doll spoke up:

"But this move seems a bit too abrupt to me, since there's no information yet indicating that Khan is going to take Jess."

Upon seeing EDG's second pick, Zhou Li instantly understood.

"It looks like the factory is planning to visit my jungle this game."

Ban Lulu, a lane bully, in the mid lane, and ban Jayce, a long-range champion, in the top lane.

EDG's objective is already very clear.

It's about BP (backup plan) revolving around a line weight.

After WE.A banned Braum, EDG's third ban was Zilean.

WE.A then banned Orianna.

"Braised pork belly, grab the big tree!"

Hearing the factory manager's words, Kou Rou pouted, but still obediently took down the big tree.

The right to vote has come into WE's hands.

"Khan, take the bull's head." Upon hearing Zhou Li's words, the Khan instantly became excited and couldn't help but let out two strange monkey-like cries.

You need to understand that the current Minotaur is not just a utility character; he's an incredibly fun hero to play!

This version of Alistar top lane is incredibly overpowered.

To be honest, the current top laner is a Tier 0 player.

Then Alistar would definitely be a top-tier (T0) top laner.

The most overpowered aspect of Alistar at this point is that after using his W skill to knock the opponent into the air, he will automatically follow up with a basic attack.

Based on this mechanism, the three-phase electric knife flow Bullhead was born.

It's important to know that every basic attack after W can trigger on-hit effects, including Sheen's passive and Statikk Shiv's electric blade attack.

As a result, Alistar became the most terrifying laning hero in history.

During the laning phase, max W and rush a Sheen. You don't need to do anything else in lane except for one thing: whenever W is ready, just harass the opponent.

There are no fancy tricks, just pure enjoyment.

If you keep pushing, you'll find that the other side has already collapsed.

Furthermore, at this point, Alistar is not only invincible in lane, but his ultimate ability also grants him overpowered stats in team fights.

After the Minotaur activates his ultimate ability, he becomes immune to crowd control, reduces damage taken by 70%, and gains 60-90 attack power!
Keep in mind that at this point, a Bloodthirster only adds eighty points of attack power.

So even in mid-to-late game team fights, a Alistar with the core three items (Trinity Force, Statikk Shiv, and Iceborn Gauntlet) can scare the enemy's core players into a panic by activating his ultimate and heading straight into the enemy team to find the ADC or AP carry.

In summary, this version of Minotaur is a Frankenstein's monster, combining damage-free attrition, invincible tankiness, and assassin burst damage.

Subsequently, WE.A immediately secured the Ryze on the second floor, denying EDG another chance to obtain the Maokai-Ryze combo.

With the draft rights back in EDG's hands, Clearlove thought for a moment, first locking in Jarvan IV for himself, and then letting U directly pick Soraka mid lane.

The reason for picking Soraka mid is twofold: firstly, Soraka can secure lane priority in the mid lane, and secondly, neither side has banned Kassadin.

Although WE.A has already picked Ryze, Ryze is very strong in the top lane in this version, so it's possible that they might get him in the top lane.

EDG didn't want to pick Kassadin because it would mean losing lane priority in the mid lane. To prevent WE.A from picking Kassadin, they immediately picked Soraka to counter him.

Seeing EDG's ban, Zhou Li spoke up:

"Let's get the policewoman."

After locking down the policewoman, Zhou Li didn't hesitate any longer and immediately locked down Poppy for himself!

"Hey! We see that WE.A locked in Poppy as their fourth pick! So, it should be Alistar support and Poppy top lane!"

Zhou Li brought out Poppy on the fourth floor to create this illusion for EDG.

This will affect EDG's champion selection for the bottom lane duo.

Seeing WE.A's picks, EDG first locked in Kog'Maw, and after much deliberation, finally locked in Janna for the support position.

Enchanter support champions like Janna are not really suitable for the current meta unless they are used in a special strategy like WE.A did in the last game.

The current version requires supports to be more mobile, and soft supports are definitely not as good as hard supports in this regard.

Seeing that EDG locked in Janna, WE.A immediately locked in Thresh.

Everyone was stunned when they saw WE.A's player selection.

"Hey! What's going on?! Why is WE.A locking in Thresh again? Could it be Alistar jungle... Poppy jungle?!"

As WE.A changed positions, and Poppy ended up in Zhou Li's hands, a gasp rang out from the crowd.

"Wow, Poppy jungle?! To be honest, I don't think I've ever seen this before! I feel like this champion is mostly played in the top lane!"

Meanwhile, the live stream chat was filled with question marks.

【? ? ? 】

Poppy can be a jungler?

[So, Brother Zhou has started doing scientific research, right?]

Poppy's jungle clear is slow; she hasn't recovered yet. Can she really jungle?

Just believe it for now!

[It looks like the factory is about to invade Zhou's jungle this game! There's no reason they wouldn't go and counter-jungle!]

[Stop with the research, Zhou Ge, just take the third game!]

Amidst the doubts of the crowd, the lineups for both sides were thus finalized.

Blue side: EDG Esports Club VS Red side: WE.A Esports Club.

Top lane: (korol) Twisted Treant VS (khan) Alistar.

Jungler: (clearlove) Jarvan IV VS (Li) Poppy.

Mid lane: (U) Soraka VS (xiye) Ryze.

ADC: (namei) Kog'Maw VS (smlz) Caitlyn.

Support: (fzzf) Janna VS (ming) Thresh.

(End of this chapter)