LPL History

Chapter 217: Cleverly Deceiving Mingkai with Hidden Vision, Xiye's Reckless Advance Leads to the Indiscriminate Giving Away First Blood
A few seconds before entering the game, Zhou Li opened the rune page.

I changed the AD runes to AP runes.

But after thinking about it again, I switched back to AD runes instead of AP runes.

This version of Poppy can be built with AP items.

Furthermore, if a Poppy develops well enough, an AP Poppy can even one-shot an opponent with a single combo!

Poppy's Q and E skills both have significant AP scaling.

Poppy's ultimate ability can increase damage dealt to a designated target by up to 40%.

In addition, there's the effect of Deathfire Embrace.

That's a single blow that can instantly kill a top-tier player.

EDG's lineup is a very typical four-protect-one composition. As long as Kog'Maw dies, EDG's team fights will only end in defeat.

Poppy's ability to instantly kill is so fast that if she can get to Kog'Maw, even healers and Janna won't have time to react and use their ultimates.

Therefore, in this game, Zhou Li's Poppy can definitely build AP, which is not only fun but also powerful.

He originally wanted to go for the maximum AP build, but after thinking about it, he decided to start with AD runes and then switch to AP items later.

Firstly, the current version of magic power items provides an absolute excess of damage, so as long as you can farm up, the slight difference in rune stats is not a problem at all.

Secondly, if Poppy takes AP runes, it will be very difficult for her to jungle in the early game.

Even so, he still had to guard against the factory manager's initial attempts to infiltrate his territory.

As soon as the game started, Zhou Li instructed Xiao Ming's Thresh to place a defensive ward in the bottom river.

The factory manager, who was paying close attention, immediately noticed this information and made the same judgment in his mind, believing that Poppy would most likely choose to open in the upper half of the draw.

So they sent Janna to WE.A's F4 camp to scout and determine Poppy's jungle route.

Although the factory has been thoroughly defeated by Zhou Li, if he doesn't dare to attempt an invasion against a Poppy jungler, then he's simply inhuman.

EDG, with vision around F4, indeed spotted Poppy flashing by, and Clearlove immediately decided on his jungle route.

Open the lower half of the field, then go straight into the opponent's blue zone!
However, what the factory owner didn't know was that what he saw was only what Zhou Li wanted him to see.

OMG Esports Club.

At this moment, all members of OMG are sitting in front of their computers, watching the match between WE.A and EDG.

Although their match against Royal Club won't take place until tomorrow, and the winner of that match will face WE.A, OMG believes that the small Royal Club is nothing to fear.

After all, they were undefeated against Royal Club in the regular season.

Therefore, research on WE.A has already begun.

Seeing that Zhou Li's Poppy deliberately lingered at the F4 position before returning to the bottom half of the map, and that WE.A even performed a lane swap, moving their bot lane duo to the top lane and letting Khan's Alistar withstand pressure in the bot lane, Lingyao said:

"The factory manager is about to be tricked!"

WE.A has clearly made a series of preparations.

First, the factory manager was misled into thinking that the Zhou Li meeting would be held in the second half of the venue, thus inducing the factory manager to open the second half of the venue.

When the factory manager discovers that Poppy has swarmed to the top half of the jungle, WE.A's lane swap will directly prevent the factory manager from invading the top half of the jungle.

This allows Poppy, who is weak in the jungle in the early game, to comfortably clear the first wave of jungle camps.

"This Zhou Li is really full of tricks; he's always scheming against others."

Xiaosan couldn't help but make a comment.

“And you think,” Yuzi sneered, “that playing jungle is very brain-intensive, like playing AD, where you just need to farm minions.”

Xiaosan and Youzi's relationship has been very bad ever since that match against WE.A.

There are two reasons for this.

The first reason is that OMG has recruited a new support player, NuoXia.

Noxia's arrival rendered Yuzu worthless, and it has been sitting coldly on the water dispenser for a long time.

The second reason is because of Xiaosan's girlfriend.

These two are getting more and more outrageous; Xiao Siqi comes to the club to stay overnight almost every two days.

His dormitory was right next to the small umbrella.

In the middle of the night, you can often hear one or two strange cries that are suppressed to the extreme and then burst out.

What Yuzu found even more unacceptable was that the club's beds were of extremely poor quality.

At first, he thought it was renovations upstairs, but then he thought, who the hell renovates in the middle of the night every few days?

That was clearly the sound of the bed board hitting the wall.

The thought of his ex-girlfriend being hit right next to him has caused Yuzu to now veer to the left every time he uses the Q skill while playing the champion Jarvan IV.

When Kogasa saw Yuzu attacking her, she just smiled and ignored it.

He's already the undisputed winner, and Yuzuru will probably retire after this season, so there's no need for him to take it too seriously.

The older brother frowned, sensing the awkward atmosphere.

Last year, OMG was the biggest dark horse in the LPL and made it all the way to the World Championship, but they were eventually eliminated by Royal Club.

Fans say that Royal Never Give Up (RNG) owes OMG a championship.

In May, OMG thought they could prove themselves at the All-Star tournament, but they were swept 3-0 by SKT, a humiliating and disastrous defeat. Now, just when they're about to compete in the World Championship, the team is in turmoil because of a woman.

He glanced at Wuzhuangtai. As far as he knew, Wuzhuangtai and that Xiao Siqi also had a somewhat ambiguous relationship.

This made the older brother very dissatisfied with Xiao Siqi.

After all, that little Siqi had messed with almost all of his teammates, but he and Lingyao were the only ones he didn't mess with!
It's understandable that he didn't pursue Lingyao, since Lingyao has a girlfriend and comes to the club often.

But I'm single!
As the soul of OMG, why doesn't Xiao Siqi do something about himself?!

Although he assured that he was absolutely not interested in Xiao Siqi, the fact that you've pursued everyone else but not him suggests a degree of discrimination!
What's going on? Are they discriminating against him because he looks Vietnamese?
Suppressing his dissatisfaction, the eldest brother, whose favorite person in the group was now Lingyao, spoke up:

"The elixir, if it were you..."

The elixir sighed.

"We've definitely been tricked. And even if we see this now, if he uses the same trick again next time, what if it's another case of reverse thinking? I wouldn't dare to gamble."

Upon hearing Lingyao's words, Nuoxia, who had remained silent until now, nodded.

"Yes, Zhou Li may seem to be able to predict the future in many ways, but in essence, it is because WE.A attaches great importance to vision. What the eyes see may be one-sided, but what if you can see the whole picture?"

Wu Zhuangtai thought for a moment and then said:

"But WE.A's proactive lane swap, replacing Alistar to withstand the pressure, is essentially sacrificing Alistar to protect Poppy."

The older brother shook his head and analyzed:

"Although Alistar is currently invincible in the top lane, Maokai is also very strong. It can be said that Maokai is the only top laner who can lane against Alistar normally. Even in a normal laning phase, the situation is only 50/50 or at most 60/40. In addition, EDG's bot lane consists of Kog'Maw and Janna, so the pressure they put on Alistar is definitely not as great as the pressure Thresh and Caitlyn put on Maokai."

Although NuoXia only joined OMG midway through the regular season, his ability to become the number one support player in the Chinese server still gives him a certain amount of influence within the team.

While the group was talking, Poppy had already cleared her entire jungle without any trouble.

In fact, after seeing WE.A change its production line, the factory knew that it had most likely been tricked.

But by the time he realized it, there was no other way to solve the problem.

After clearing the entire jungle area, Zhou Li immediately pressed the recall button.

Essentially, Poppy, who lacks sustain, is not well-suited for the jungle.

However, as long as you can successfully clear the first jungle area, the rest of the days will be much easier.

Zhou Li then entered a formulaic jungle clearing phase.

Since you've chosen to play AP Poppy, you should actually play like a jungle carry.

What is the core concept of the "wild" style?
Avoid ganking unless absolutely necessary.

Although EDG's lineup was clearly stronger than WE.A's in the late game, it doesn't mean Zhou Li should rush to desperately look for opportunities in the early game.

Because he has already moved the policewoman to the top lane.

Now, all he needs to do is ensure that he develops as quickly as possible, while helping the female police officer Thresh in the top lane to maintain vision and prevent ganks, and at the same time be ready to counter-gank.

As for Ryze in the mid lane and Alistar in the bot lane, they'll have to rely on their own skills.

EDG player seats.

After realizing they had missed their chance, the factory immediately changed its strategy.

Although Kou Rou was under immense pressure in the top lane, screaming and yelling as the female police officer harassed him, the factory knew he absolutely could not go to the top lane.

For WE.A, Poppy will definitely be a key player to protect the top lane and push the tower.

If you rush in to grab the top lane, it will easily turn into a two-on-three situation.

Therefore, he must focus his attention on the middle and lower lanes.

And Alistar in the bottom lane is obviously not in his consideration.

Therefore, Xi Ye became the factory manager's primary target.

Ganking the mid lane can both curb Ryze's development and free up your own mid laner earlier, so you can look for opportunities to help Koro1 in the top lane.

Moreover, the factory knows that Xiye has an aggressive laning style, which makes him easy to create opportunities.

Having abandoned any thought of invading, the factory manager then moved to the middle lane.

He squatted there for more than ten seconds, showing great patience.

As expected, Xi Ye finally gave him the chance.

After seeing that the healer missed with her Q skill, Xiye's Ryze took the initiative to push forward, wanting to trade blows with the healer.

In fact, Ryze faces considerable pressure from minions in the early game, and the correct approach is to alleviate this pressure by trading blows.

Xiye's strategy was sound; the problem was that when he went forward to trade blows, he didn't pay attention to his positioning, giving the jungler a very comfortable gank position.

As soon as Xiye saw the prince suddenly appear from his side, he was about to react when the healer had already used her E skill on Ryze.

The old version of the healer's E skill was a targeted silence skill that was impossible to avoid.

The prince's EQ combo was already hurtling towards Ryze.

Although Xiye used Flash immediately after the control effect ended, Clearlove cleverly didn't use W immediately, but instead used W after following up with Flash.

The slow effect from W, combined with the slow effect from the red buff, made it impossible for Ryze, who already had only half health left, to escape.

First blood!

(End of this chapter)