LPL History

Chapter 263 The Shadow of the Rat Secretly Crosses the Enemy's Plans; A Surprise Attack in the Wilderness Captures the Hammer King

As dandy headed towards WE.A's top half of the map, he kept an eye on the mid lane.

He knew that rat players were extremely despicable.

The most annoying thing is the mid lane.

Furthermore, Pawn's Jayce is currently pushing the lane, and Twitch might very well start with red buff to annoy Pawn.

However, if the rat really does have such a bad idea and comes to the mid lane, then Dandy will arrive immediately and make sure the rat doesn't get away.

After not seeing any rats in the mid lane, Dandy headed straight for WE.A's top half of the map.

I spotted F4 still in the chicken coop at a glance.

Instead of making a move immediately, he moved closer to the red buff.

After seeing that the red buff had been destroyed, danday confidently used an EQ combo to poke at the stone golem and started fighting.

Based on the available information, Dandy quickly drew a conclusion.

Zhou Li was probably afraid of being invaded by me, so he chose to start with the red buff and went directly to the bottom half of the jungle.

Based on the timeline, the rats should be attacking the three wolves in the lower half of the map right now.

So what he needs to do is eat the stone man and the F4.

Then check if there's an opportunity in the mid lane.

If there's no opportunity, immediately return to town via B, clear your lower half of the map, and prevent rats from stealing your items.

However, what Dandy didn't know was that the audience was already filled with gasps of amazement.

Because at this moment, the rat is not somewhere else, but in the upper half of the Samsung White map, and has almost finished Dandy's blue buff!
"Wow! Zhou Li, how dare he! He'll be dead if he gets caught, how dare he enter Dandy's jungle like that!"

In the commentary booth, Quan Yongjun stared wide-eyed at Dandy, who was still slowly attacking the rock golem, looking extremely impatient.

The rat in Zhou Li's collection was chosen to be the red one from its own territory.

However, after finishing the red buff, he immediately went straight into Dandy's blue buff area.

"Oh, Dandy seems completely unaware that there's a thief in the house!"

Kim Jae-young also started complaining.

In fact, unless you're looking at it from God's perspective, who would have thought a mouse would be in that spot?

While it's easy to gank with the Rat jungler, and the jungle monster mechanics allow for damage-free jungle clearing, the Rat is extremely vulnerable to enemy jungler invading their jungle.

Because this hero is extremely weak in the early game, any regular jungler can easily dominate Twitch in the jungle.

The Zhou rites precisely grasped this mentality.

The so-called most dangerous place is the safest place.

No one could have imagined that his rat, instead of being cowardly, would actually take the initiative to invade the opponent's jungle.

Of course, relying solely on such simple psychological games and speculations is clearly far from sufficient.

There must be some preconditions involved.

First, Zhou Li conducted an extremely detailed and in-depth study of Dandy's personality and jungling style.

This person likes to go to the opposing team's jungle whenever he has the chance.

If Dandy were replaced with a factory, Zhou Li wouldn't have done this.

Of course, there are two situations when it comes to the factory: one is the factory in the LPL, and the other is the factory in the World Championship.

Secondly, WE.A used the vision left during their strong level 1 team fight invasion to see dandy's jungle selection.

Finally, and most importantly, it's the experience that Tabe and Zhou Li gained from reviewing every single match against Samsung White countless times.

When Samsung White is on the blue side, they really like to leave a ward in the bush near the enemy's red buff.

This field of view is usually done by the mata.

Mata has a habit when placing wards. Perhaps he is always very greedy and wants the ward to have a wider field of vision, or perhaps he often faces pressure from the positioning of the opposing players when placing wards. However, Zhou Li thinks that Mata's intention in placing wards is closer to tricking the opponent into finding the wrong position so he can show off.

Therefore, Mata's vision range allows him to see the left side of the Red Buff and most of the narrow passage in the river, but not the F4 area.

Although this ward cannot detect the enemy jungler's jungle clearing route, it will be detected immediately if the enemy jungler wants to gank.

At the same time, because the ward placement is quite tricky, it often causes many players to make incorrect vision judgments based on conventional experience.

However, Mata's habit was exposed by Zhou Li and Tabe.

So from Dandy's perspective, the top laner Looper placed vision in the river bush early on to prevent Twitch from ambushing him.

Meanwhile, the narrow passage near the middle lane provides visibility for our side.

No rat sounds were detected.

That means the mouse is still in the upper half of the bracket!
What he didn't expect was that Zhou Li had a thorough understanding of Mata's vision setup and used his Q skill to become invisible, directly passing through this vision area!

Samsung's much-vaunted vision control has become a tool for deceiving their own eyes.

At this moment, Dandy was still unaware of the seriousness of the situation.

After finishing the F4 attack, he immediately pressed the recall button.

He started with red buff and headed straight for the top half of the map, so he hasn't eaten the Golems or the F4 yet.

In Dandy's opinion, the rat likely left vision in his own top half of the jungle. So after seeing him and stealing his Krugs and F4, the rat might take a risk and steal a camp of jungle monsters from his jungle.

When Dandy returned to town, the rat was still attacking Dandy's three wolves.

This even made Miller Bella and others in the commentary booth sweat for Zhou Li.

But they soon realized they had been worrying unnecessarily.

After returning to base, Dandy executed a skillful and direct EQ combo, then sprinted towards his own Golem's location.

"Why... is Dadny still heading towards his own half of the draw?"

The child clearly couldn't understand the thinking of a professional player.

Miller quickly connected with Dandy's thought process.

"I understand. Dandy probably thought that Zhou Li might try to steal his jungle camps after he saw him steal the Krugs and F4, so he went back to base to defend!"

Upon hearing Miller's words, the doll scratched its head.

"Well, that idea is correct, but..."

He looked at the locations of the two junglers on the map and couldn't help but want to laugh.

"But this scene looks kind of funny."

Danday is the kind of expert who is so immersed in his own world that he's completely out of touch with reality, still mentally battling his opponent. Little does he know that his opponent is on a completely different level from him.

They're in the atmosphere.

However, this gamble actually maximized his losses!
At this moment, Dandy was completely unaware that, from God's perspective, his game had become a joke. After seeing that his F4 was still there, he couldn't help but laugh.

"Huh, no one's even come to steal my jungle monsters? What happened to the most aggressive jungler? He's not all that great after all."

Hearing Dandy's lighthearted words, Mata also laughed.

"As expected, Dandy is the world's number one jungler!"

Originally, everyone was a little anxious because of WE.A's draft picks.

At this moment, the two started joking around, and apart from imp, Samsung White's voice was filled with a joyful atmosphere.

Dandy finished clearing the jungle monsters in the lower half of the map and headed towards the upper half of his own map.

When he unleashed a double EQ combo, stabbing fiercely into the wolf den of the three wolves, sending wolf fur flying everywhere, Dandy was stunned.

He discovered that his three wolves had grown wings.

Dandy swallowed hard, a sense of foreboding rising in her heart.

However, he did not speak in the voice message immediately.

Just a second ago, he had mocked Zhou Li for not having a cooldown on his rat's Q skill.

It wasn't until he saw that his blue buff and the big ghost were gone that Dandy finally lost his temper and cursed.

"Damn it! Where did my jungle monster go? When did it enter my jungle?!"

At that moment, Dandy even forgot to perform any actions.

I stood there for a full second.

And this was captured live on camera by the director.

"Ah. The disappearance of the monsters was obviously a bit unexpected for Dandy. He just stood there and started contemplating life."

The doll immediately started teasing.

"Zhou Li's risky move to seek riches and fortune really shows his incredible composure. To be honest, when he was in the Sanxing Baiye area, my palms were sweating non-stop. You know, in that position, if a rat like him gets caught, he has absolutely no chance of escaping."

Miller's voice was filled with the joy of surviving a disaster.

Bella, however, spoke up instead:

"Actually, I'm not that nervous. After all, as a fan of Zhou Li, I know him too well. Behind every seemingly risky move, there is actually a complex and detailed plan."

Miller nodded and explained:
"That's true, but watching Zhou Li's matches is really a test of your nerves. Logically speaking, we should be able to get more information from God's perspective and be more mentally prepared than the players in the matches. But have you noticed that Zhou Li seems to have God's perspective every time? In fact, his God's perspective is even more advanced than ours. It feels like he can control his opponents' thoughts or predict the future."

The child spoke:

"In that case, the rat can safely take the jungle monsters in the bottom half of the map. Even if Dandy realizes his position now, it's unrealistic for him to come and counter-jungle. But what's strange is that Zhou Li chose to build boots first when he went back to base! Was it to make it easier to roam and gank? But if that's the case, won't the jungler be under a lot more pressure?"

For a rat in a professional match, being able to start with three buffs is truly a dream start.

However, just when everyone thought that the rat would first safely take over his own jungle, Zhou Li's next plan surprised everyone.

After returning to the city, Zhou Li didn't even choose to fight his jungle monsters, but instead headed straight for the bottom lane!

Based on the timeline, Dandy must have already discovered that he had stolen Dandy's jungle monsters by this point in time.

Therefore, it is not difficult to deduce one's next move.

In that case, Mata will definitely move!
He will definitely come to his own jungle to establish vision, so as to understand his subsequent movements!
Therefore, this time is the best time for the Zhou rites to begin their variations.

In order to take advantage of this time difference, Zhou Li deliberately chose to produce straw sandals first!
As a jungler, when others think you're ganking, you'd better actually be ganking.

When others think you're jungling, you'd better be ganking!

Unlike in the past, Mata didn't go out to explore early this time.

The Thresh and Ezreal combination also ensured their lane control in the early game.

So after receiving Dandy's message, Mata went straight into WE.A's jungle.

He wanted to place a ward at the blue buff location.

At this moment, the gears of fate began to turn. Looking at the mini-map, Mata and Zhou Li, as if they had received some prior information, appeared as two straight lines, moving directly toward each other's positions!
"Hey! Mata! He's trying to use his ward to scout Zhou Li's location! But he doesn't realize he's about to run right into Zhou Li's face!!"

When Mata placed vision into the blue buff bush, the rat had already circled around behind him.

Meanwhile, WE.A's bot lane duo suddenly began to push forward, forcing imp back and immediately heading towards the jungle.

imp immediately sensed WE.A's intention and quickly spoke up:

"Mata, they're looking for you!"

But Mata was too busy to respond to Imp at that point.

The rat, with the red buff, suddenly appeared behind Thresh.

"Hehehe~ It's me~"

At this point, the rat has neither level nor equipment, so its damage output is extremely negligible!

But the key point is that the rat has a red buff!
The moment Mata saw the mouse appear, his first reaction was to use his EQ to control it.

Because he could hear the fat general's voice coming to his aid through his earpiece.

However, this world-class Thresh player behaved like a greenhorn in front of Zhou Li.

Mata initially planned to use positioning to create some space, then unexpectedly use his E skill to control the rat, ensuring his Q skill would hit. He then used his lantern to pick up the fat general's Jayce and immediately focus fire on the squishy rat.

In this way, they can even turn the tide and, once imp arrives, they will definitely be able to win this team fight.

But the rats have always given Mata an extremely ambiguous position.

Every time Mata tries to use E, the mouse instantly turns its head, creating maximum distance.

After a brief scramble, WE.A's bot lane duo arrived.

But at the same time, the fat general had already reached the other side of the wall.

This is the ability of a world-class mid laner. As Mata headed towards WE.A's jungle, he had already prepared his positioning, forcing Xiye back and rushing to support him, which is why he was able to arrive at the battlefield so quickly.

Seeing that Pawn had arrived, Mata no longer hesitated.

His absolute confidence led him to use Flash to reposition himself, and while performing an EQ combo, he threw out his lantern to catch the fat general and focus fire to kill the rat!

In the commentary booth, Miller's eyes widened as if he had witnessed something unbelievable, and he couldn't help but shout:

"Oh my god! Mata's Flash + EQ combo completely wiped out the sideburns of the Twitch!!"

(End of this chapter)