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Chapter 265 Divine Strategist Predicts Zhou Li's Clever Ambush; Wild Support and Double Roaming, Three Stars Tremble in Fear

In the commentary booth, everyone was still immersed in the triple kill just now and couldn't come back to their senses for a long time.

Unlike all other competitions, the shock this time did not come from any single brilliant move by the players.

Even Zhou Li's triple kill in this wave seemed extremely simple and unpretentious.

But this did not diminish the shock people felt.

This shock comes from the top-level competition between the players!
Mata's counter-gank would have created a gap in the top lane for any team if they had done it!
But Zhou Li always seemed to be able to anticipate the other party's next move!
The constant game of strategy, strategy, and more strategy is not a visual treat, but rather a brainstorming experience that leads to cerebellar atrophy!
The director also knows exactly what the audience wants to see!
During the replay, Zhou Li's first-person perspective was shown directly, and even the original body disc was included!

"Mata is 100% in this grass!"

Zhou Li's resolute voice still echoed in everyone's ears, giving them an extremely unreal feeling!
How did he know everything?!
Even in Europe and America, audiences have come to regard Zhou Li as God.

After all, only God can be so omniscient and omnipotent.

Not to mention the outside audience, even the members of WE.A at this time found it unbelievable.

Xiao Ming couldn't help but ask:
"Brother Zhou, how did you know Mata was here?"

“It’s actually very simple,” Zhou Li cleared his throat, then suddenly said out of the blue, “Referee, check the time.”

The referee, standing behind the crowd, paused for a moment, then heard Zhou Li continue:
“I’m about to show off. Remember to tell the director when the game ends,” he glanced at the time in the upper right corner. “The game is 6 minutes and 32 seconds long. Zhou Li is about to share his insightful opinions.”

Upon hearing Zhou Li's words, the referee behind him twisted his expression.

This is the venue for the World Championship Finals!

He never expected that the other party would have the leisure to chat with him, and even asked him to have the director record what he was going to say next.

This is too outrageous!

At this point, what Zhou Li said next was no longer important.

The young referee couldn't imagine how devastated the Koreans would be if this audio recording were leaked after the match, showing Zhou Li's attitude towards Samsung White in the finals.

They didn't even consider the other side as human!
"Do you know why Mata's two consecutive proactive attacks dragged them into the abyss?"

"Samsung White is indeed very strong, but they have already demonstrated their capabilities before! We haven't!"

Zhou Li casually added a question mark to Xiaoming's name.

"Why did I make you stay in the bottom lane during the group stage and even the knockout stage? I already taught you the jungle-support gank strategy during the summer split, but we never used it until today's finals!"

"I understand Mata's thinking, I understand Samsung White's jungle-support duo roaming strategy, I know exactly what he's thinking. This guy has a very deep prejudice against imp. Looking at all his previous games, once Samsung White's bot lane falls behind in lane, Mata will almost always choose to roam to another lane to look for opportunities in the next wave. And Pawn in the mid lane was killed in the last team fight and even used his Flash. Xiye's Lucian still has both summoner spells, so ganking the mid lane is definitely not the best choice. Therefore, Mata will most likely appear in the top lane!"

"Of course, this is just my speculation based on his personality and habits. There are two things that really make me 100% certain about Mata's position! First, Dandy disappeared from sight for a long time. Second, Looper's terrible acting in the top lane!"

"If Looper hadn't been out of sorts that time, how could Rumble have positioned himself like that, allowing Maokai to walk right up and tie him up? He didn't even dare to use the harpoon, afraid of slowing down Flandre's Maokai!"

"If the guess and reality corroborate each other, then the conclusion will not be wrong. Mata is very cunning. He guessed that I might also be in the top lane and was thinking of continuing to hide in the bushes to ambush me."

"He wants to gamble with me! But he forgot that he has absolutely no leverage to gamble with me! Trying to outsmart me is like a three-year-old child who leaks even in diapers!"

"And now I'm 100% sure that he won't think I've been camping out on top lane waiting for him; he'll just think I was already near top lane and happened to arrive. Do you know what our biggest advantage is right now? It's that we know their tactics inside and out, while they know nothing about our jungler and support ganking."

After Zhou Li finished speaking, a series of sycophantic and boastful voices rang out from WE.A's voice chat.

Zhou Li looked at Holy Gun Bro and said:

“Come on, Saint Gun, I’m giving you a chance to do a final review. This will determine whether you continue playing in the next game, or whether I let Khan play.”

Upon hearing Zhou Li's words, Saint Gun Bro immediately perked up.

However, Flandre, who often sat on the bench during the Summer Split, is no longer the same player he once was. He now speaks sycophantically with confidence.

"The most crucial point is that Brother Zhou is just too strong! He single-handedly carried us to the finals and prevented our tactical system from being exposed. Without Brother Zhou, we wouldn't be where we are today!"

Zhou Li did not comment on Flandre's words and actions, but instead called for the referee.

"Referee, remember to record what Flandre said just now, and while you're at it, cut out what Sima Laozei said. I'm afraid that idiot will be cyberbullied."

referee:"……"

A confident and radiant smile spread across Flandre's face.

Your Khan is a disciple of Wu Wukai, and his mouth is always foul. He can only win over Brother Zhou's heart by pretending to be stupid and acting like a monkey.

And what about Flandre?!
Three months ago, he knelt before Zhu Kai and offered him that cup of tea!
He himself has always been diligent in his studies, even attending adult university and joining more than a dozen literature enthusiast groups on QQ, all in order to improve his reading comprehension and expand his vocabulary!
What do you Khan have to fight against Flandre?
Today he's going to show everyone that even world champion top laners have a gap in skill!

At this moment, Mata, sitting on the Samsung player bench, clearly had lost the confidence he had at the start of the match.

The match had only been going on for a few minutes, and the confidence he had built up since the group stage had already been almost completely depleted.

Before this, as the brain of the team, under Mata's command, Samsung White was like the sharpest spear, always able to find the opponent's weakest point and strike fatally!

However, today he made two waves of decisions.

One wave of attacks led to the fat general handing over the advantage in the middle lane.

In one wave, they directly caused the top laner, Looper, to die along with the jungler.

Just as Zhou Li had predicted, Mata was now inexplicably hypnotizing herself, making herself believe that Zhou Li had just arrived at the battlefield from the upper half of the map.

Instead of just squatting there and waiting for Mata and Dandy to jump into the trap themselves.

If that's really the case, then Zhou Li is truly terrifying!

His every plan and thought process was laid bare before the other party, making Mata feel utterly suffocated.

If he doesn't convince himself with this idea, Mata feels he can't even make any decisions anymore.

Because whenever he tries to move, an idea involuntarily pops into his mind—

What if the Zhou rituals have already been seen through?
In this way, he will fall into endless self-destruction and lose all judgment about the game situation!

As the team's leader, countless setbacks and trials have given Mata a resilient and strong heart.

Regardless of whether he was deceiving himself or what methods he used, after accepting the conclusion that it was all just a coincidence, Mata quickly regained his ability to analyze the situation.

In less than seven minutes, Samsung White had already given away five kills under his command.

The first blood went to Yasuo in the bottom lane, and the four kills went to Zhou Li's Twitch.

Mata felt a sense of suffocation as soon as she started analyzing. Even in random games, you probably wouldn't find a rat with such good development.

Fortunately, Mata quickly recovered by using self-deception.

The more critical issue now is that, although all the kills are concentrated on Zhou Li, Samsung White is behind in three lanes.

Because of his abandonment, Imp in the bottom lane is now pinned under the tower and unable to move.

Pawn, playing in the mid lane, died in the first team fight after using Flash, losing all his advantage and constantly having to be wary of Twitch's attacks. Fortunately, Pawn's individual skill is too strong; even under these circumstances, his CS (creep score) is two more than Xiye's, making him arguably the only lane that isn't behind in gold. However, he is lagging behind in summoner spells and experience.

As for the top lane, the usually calm and low-key Looper is still complaining in his ear.

Dandy's jungle strategy can be said to have completely failed in its initial counter-jungling attempt.

And he himself is now the lowest-ranked one in the entire arena.

Taking into account the lineups of both sides, Mata made a decision that went against the team's philosophy.

In this match, Samsung White will likely turn into Samsung Blue and begin operation.

In fact, all they can do now is keep operating.

Because if another direct conflict breaks out, it could very likely hasten the demise of Samsung White.

Although Samsung White has always been known worldwide for its fast-paced attack style, how could they, as a sister team to Samsung Blue, not know how to manage their strategy?

Despite having Yasuo, Lucian, and Twitch, which might seem like they deal explosive damage, WE.A is actually a pure melee team.

Their team has Rumble, an AP carry, to carry them in the late game!

Mata felt that the reason for this game was most likely because his strategy clashed with Zhou Li's.

This is not unusual. Even in casual games, there are occasional situations where the other player seems to be able to appear in the same place as you, as if they were a prophet.

With the team currently lagging behind, Mata knows that he's likely to make more mistakes by doing more.

Choosing a safe, sustainable approach to development, dragging the game out until the late game, and relying on team fights to achieve victory is the best option.

Mata believes he is very clear-headed and has given the command that best aligns with the team's current development direction.

But in fact, Mata was already somewhat confused at this point.

Because he had lost enough ability to think strategically and had become completely absorbed in the game.

He completely forgot the statistics he had previously compiled—

In this World Championship, even the team that is best at macro-management, the team that is best at dragging out the pace and playing the late game, and all the other teams from various regions, did not last more than 30 minutes in their match against WE.A!
As a rational person, Mata should have been the one who believed most in such so-called data statistics.

Therefore, before the match, he and his coach believed that they had to establish a rhythm in the early stages.

But now, such rapid changes in the situation have caused him to lose his ability to make correct judgments.

Originally, Samsung White and WE.A were perhaps the two sharpest spears in the world.

But now, Mata has chosen to turn his sharpest spear into a shield riddled with holes.

They are indeed good at operations, but if their operations are really that excellent, then what's the point of Samsung Blue?

When Mata returned to the bottom lane and started to honestly support Imp while he focused on laning, things didn't get better. Instead, WE.A launched an increasingly fierce attack!

Without Mata and Dandy's harassment, Zhou Li's Twitch completely controlled the pace of the game.

After discovering that Mata had obediently returned to online play, WE.A quickly made adjustments.

WE moved Yasuo to the mid lane and sent Lucian back to the bottom lane.

The reason for doing this is that Yasuo has already reached level six.

So what can Yasuo do once he reaches level six?

Compared to Lucian, Yasuo can better coordinate with Zhou Li to tower dive Pawn!

If Samsung Blue relied on Deft to carry the team's damage output in the late game, then Samsung White's main carry was Pawn, who dominated the entire game throughout the early, mid, and late game.

This is not because imp is inferior to deft.

It's because the Samsung White game has a fast pace and short game time.

In addition, Mata always sacrifices imp in the early stages.

This resulted in many games ending before imp had even finished leveling up.

So the key to ruining Samsung White is to ruin Pawn!
Sima Laozei imitated Xiye back then and made a cool move, knocking up Jayce under the tower with an EQ flash.

Yasuo's knock-up combined with his ultimate's hard crowd control left Pawn with absolutely no room to maneuver.

"Hehe! It's me~"

The nightmarish voice rang out again.

At this time, Zhou Li's equipment was really too good!

Combined with Yasuo's damage, Jayce died the moment he landed!

Sima, the old scoundrel, swiftly brought down his sword, pressed the recall button, and began playing his flute.

Xi Ye chuckled and said:

"Damn, Sima is so handsome!"

Sima the Old Thief had a blank expression, but the corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably.

"Just basic operation."

Zhou Li activated his stealth ability and plunged into the jungle of the three-star white team.

In some matches, you can only surrender after twenty minutes.

But it ended after eight minutes.

(End of this chapter)