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Chapter 101 You Will Lose

The lineups for both sides have been finalized.

JT (blue side) fielded Kennen (top), Sejuani (jungle), Zed (mid), and Kalista and Alistar (bot).

The red team, EDG, consists of Jarvan IV in the top lane, Elise in the jungle, Malphite in the mid lane, and Kog'Maw and Lulu in the bot lane.

JT's coach stood behind the players' bench.

He prefers to use pen and paper to record his drafting strategies and player habits, but at this moment, for the first time, he began to regret—why didn't he bring a tablet today?

At least a tablet wouldn't leave a blurry water stain on the paper like it does now, with sweaty hands.

Wrong! The research was flawed!

He did indeed check the ranked match history of Li Yi's Chinese server account, "Lying Down Like C".

From last night until noon today, it was all Yasuo, and in several of those games I was duo queuing with another player on the team named "It's so good to love loli" who played Malphite.

The coach reviewed the record.

My heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled down.

After all, while Yasuo is one of Zed's strict fathers, he's not entirely useless in team fights—he's just…

It's said that it's useless except for throwing a wind wall to block skills.

Most importantly, picking Yasuo means that Li Yi will be stuck in the mid lane, which is equivalent to cutting off the longest plank of EDG's big barrel, which is exactly the situation they wanted to see.

However, it seems that...

These two must have changed their phone numbers!

Ai Luoli plays Yasuo, but this Li Yi is playing Malphite!

That's cunning!

The coach cursed inwardly, but then realized he didn't really have the right to say it. After all, it was their LMS official commentators who started the dirty tricks, getting involved in the drama and trying to pressure Li Yi into doing something irrational through off-field public opinion.

They were just playing along.

Thinking of this, the coach felt a chill run down his spine.

Looking at the young player sitting in the center of the opposing EDG team—that's right, there are quite a few rumors online about this player trying to win over his teammates and ostracize former star mid laner Scout. If you think he's some kind of nice guy, you're completely wrong.

How could someone so skilled in palace intrigue be as innocent as they appear?

It's true that our LMS region is full of scoundrels, but you, Li Yi, must be a king of Lilliput at the very least!

How can this not be considered "Bright Sword"?

[Fofo, if you're a Zed prodigy, then prove me by solo-killing Malphite!]

[Haha, I knew it! I was wondering why I brought along a cute little girl this time, turns out it's part of a military strategy!]

[That's so damn sneaky! I glanced at their profile and saw that they even changed their DF (DPS) settings to confuse the opponent. They must have re-bound those two key bindings in the settings.]

[All Malphite players on the Chinese server, heed my command! Immediately cease all gameplay and refrain from consuming my, the God of Chess's, network bandwidth!]

At this moment, Fofo's expression was like the gloomy, rainy weather in Kaohsiung, looking even worse than his own coach.

After all, all the coach needs to do is apologize after the game; the one who makes those harsh remarks and then has to go on the field and suffer is himself.

Compared to this purple coral reef that looks like it's covered in syphilis, he actually prefers to lane against Yasuo.

Judging from last night's ranked game replay, that Yasuo wasn't particularly skilled. Against an average Yasuo, Zed, with his solid stats in this patch, has a real chance, and a solo kill with a maxed E build isn't impossible.

As for hitting the stone golem—

Let's not talk about the laning phase yet.

While Zed can dodge Malphite's "Unstoppable Force" by placing the mouse under his feet and pressing R on his own model during team fights, this Li Yi clearly isn't going to play some kind of ninja war on the coral reef with him; he's most likely just there to torment his teammates.

The two sides' minion waves converged in the middle lane.

Fofo deliberately positioned himself forward, trying to bait the Malphite into using Q to throw him a roti.

But he was overthinking it.

How can you presume to know what a Golem player is thinking?

The purple coral reef didn't even glance at him, learned the W skill, strode towards the enemy ranks, and started a chest-expanding exercise, slamming three front-line soldiers.

In order to balance the minion wave, Fofo had to find the right angle to throw out his Q Shuriken, trying to whittle down both the minions and the enemy.

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Seeing the numbers flashing across the stone golem, Fofo thought he was seeing things. He selected the coral reef with his mouse cursor and glanced at the panel properties in the upper left corner.

72 armor!

"Damn, four red-clad warriors are out?"

"You'll lose~"

Li Yi, who was blanking out his mind and frantically attacking the minion wave, suddenly realized that his passive granite shield had been reduced by a small section.

Where did that mosquito come from that bit me?

It has to be said that after actually playing this hero, Li Yi realized that mid-lane carries like Malzahar and Crystal Maiden still require too much skill; they're just imitating a real dragon.

A 300-gold cloth armor can provide 72 armor points, which is practically dominant in the mid-lane meta, far removed from the top laners. The only downside might be the slightly lower magic resistance, making it a bit vulnerable to Zed's passive auto-attack.

So here's the question: with four health potions, how many combos of skills does Zed need to use to bring his health down to below half?

Li Yi found his brain was a bit sluggish today, and he couldn't figure out the calculations. However, Zed's next WEQ combo tickled him again, making Li Yi certain that the opponent could only secure a kill by calling their jungler to force a fight and gain a significant advantage.

"Zed has pushed the lane to the tower, probably planning to call for Sejuani to gank at level 3. Kai can try counter-jungling." Li Yi noticed that the opponent was starting to use his body to block the lane and quickly reminded his jungler.

as predicted.

After clearing the bottom half of the jungle, Mingkai sneaked into the enemy's blue buff area. A [self-destructing spider] that was probing the three wolves did not find the enemy Sejuani.

"The Sejuani, who also started with red buff and cleared three jungle camps, chose to gank mid lane. Fortunately, LeeE noticed and started moving upwards in advance!" In the video, Sejuani was emerging from the shadows of the bottom river, and Wang Duoduo in the commentary booth raised his voice.

"Sejuani uses Q to close the distance, then W to flash and slow down Malphite, and with the red buff, she can keep chasing and auto-attacking!"

LeeE remained very calm and didn't use his Q [Earthquake Shard] on Sejuani because he couldn't steal movement speed while Sejuani's passive was still active!

Guan Zeyuan was also paying attention to Zed's skill bar in the bottom left corner: "But Zed's W is still on cooldown, so he can only choose to follow up with Flash to deal damage!"

"If Zed gets too close, Malphite's Q will steal his movement speed. To be on the safe side, we can wait until Sejuani lands four stacks of her E freeze before following up. That would be much safer," Wang Duoduo calmly analyzed.

"Wow, I knew I'd made a mistake!"

Zed clearly didn't wait for Sejuani to freeze Malphite before impatiently entering Malphite's Q range.

Li Yi had been waiting for this moment. He countered with a Q [Earthquake Shard] that stole Zed's movement speed. Sejuani, who had been relying on the red buff to slow down Zed, was unable to keep up with the final auto-attack that was enough to freeze him.

Slowed down, Zed could only forcefully flash to close the distance, attempting to use his E [Shadow Slash! Demon Slash] to slow down the enemy before landing a final auto-attack to freeze the Malphite.

[Major earthquake tremors!]

The stone man slammed his hand on the floor. The Shadow Assassin's basic attack was clearly raised, but he just couldn't land it!

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