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Chapter 223: Lower Disadvantage

On the LPL commentary stage, Guan Zeyuan excitedly said: "SKT was completely unaware that this was EDG's trap. Peanut used all his mobility skills to try to get the first blood, but in the end, the damage was not enough."

The factory manager's skill slowed down the Kha'Zix, allowing C-God to create distance and begin attacking. The combined damage from the two was considerable; the Kha'Zix, with its small frame, couldn't withstand the attack and couldn't even escape.

Miller added, "Shen is following behind Kha'Zix. He seems to want to run away, but he hesitated and turned back. Is he trying to save someone? But neither of them has any mobility skills right now. Once Sejuani catches them, neither of them will be able to escape."

Guan Zeyuan noticed the signal and quickly said, "Mid lane, it's Faker in the mid lane sending the signal. He's retreating, trying to use Teleport to help, but Scout knows what he's doing. He keeps chasing Faker and won't give Faker a chance to support him this time."

"The top lane Kha'Zix's health dropped very quickly, and he was almost dead. However, Shen stepped in in time, took some of the damage, and saved Peanut. But Kha'Zix still couldn't escape, as Sejuani hadn't even used her QE skills or Flash yet."

Rita stared intently at the screen with her big eyes, already able to picture Li Chen walking onto the stage to give his acceptance speech.

[It's over. None of them can escape. What's the point of SKT playing anymore?]

All I can say is, this is my strategy; you think you can catch him, but it's actually a trap.

[Little Peanut clearly hasn't experienced telecom fraud before!]

[Three minutes into the game, is he giving C a double kill? That's interesting.]

Almost all LPL viewers had already anticipated how this game would unfold, since a super fed carry is definitely a nightmare for the opponent.

Back in the game, after Shen and Kha'Zix were both fully buffed with passives, Sejuani used her E skill to stun them both. Then, with Sejuani's damage, Li Chen took down Kha'Zix first.

Then Sejuani tackled Huni, using her positioning to chase after her. Li Chen followed with a series of leaps and bounds, eventually reaching the tower and killing Huni.

Vengeful Spear secures a double kill on Twilight Eye!

When the notification sound came from the top lane, Scout, who had been chasing Faker all the way to the tower, quickly retreated and immediately used Flash.

He was previously badly suppressed by Faker and was not in good condition. This chase against Faker was also risking his life. Now that the mission is completed, he naturally has to run away and save his life first.

Li Chen also acknowledged Scout's contribution, saying, "Scout did a good job this time, preventing Faker from teleporting up, otherwise we really wouldn't have been able to handle it."

"Thank you, Brother Chen. We still need you to win. I will definitely try my best to hold him back and prevent him from wandering around and affecting you," Scout quickly expressed his heartfelt gratitude.

Meiko, who was in the bottom lane, was standing in the bushes with nothing to do and said in a daze, "God, when are you going to pull me up? Bottom lane is getting a bit boring. I want to play with you and crush the enemy team."

"Wait a bit longer, wait until you pass the CET-6 exam before you set off!"

As they were talking, Li Chen and Zhu Mei had already pushed down the top lane minion wave.

Shen teleported over at that moment, but Li Chen had no intention of diving the tower to kill him again. After all, Shen still had his E skill taunt available, and he should still be respected.

With this recall, Li Chen had two kills and 700 gold, plus four waves of minions and naturally generated gold, which was almost exactly enough to buy a Bilgewater Cutlass.

As he walked back to the lane, the minion waves on both sides were no longer under Shen's control and were stuck in the middle of the river for the blue team, with the blue team having significantly more minions.

Actually, so far, Shen hasn't fallen much behind Li Chen in terms of experience; both of them have reached level four. But the key issue is that the difference in their equipment is too great.

Li Chen now wields a Doran's Blade and a Bilgewater Scimitar, while Shen only has a Doran's Shield and five health potions.

Looking at the advancing minion wave and then at Li Chen's equipment, Huni felt a dark aura before her eyes and a bitter feeling welled up inside.

He really didn't know how to play this lane. To put it bluntly, even if Li Chen were standing in front of him, he wouldn't dare to use his E to engage, otherwise he would definitely die a terrible death.

Li Chen leaped back and forth, reaping the remaining minions with low health, always keeping himself positioned between the minion wave and Huni.

Now that his advantage is established, he no longer needs to rush to kill and secure kills. He just needs to control the minion wave, maintain his advantage, and prevent Shen from farming.

When the time comes, someone will naturally come to help him push the tower.

Getting three kills and a tower bounty in ten minutes, then farming some jungle monsters, and having Lulu build an Ardent Censer for him to play with—that's a very reasonable and promising development path.

As for SKT on the other side, they had once again fallen into a state of silence.

Faker recalled Peanut's confident tone at the beginning of the match and wondered what exactly went wrong.

Is it really impossible to target the top laner?

Does targeting one's own side inevitably lead to a rapid collapse?

Faker, reflecting on the early game tactics of these two games, felt that it would have been better to ignore the top lane.

At least in the first group stage match, they didn't help the top lane, but the team as a whole didn't fall into a big disadvantage in the early game. On the contrary, they forced Li Chen to risk tower diving and kill, seeking an opportunity to open up the game.

Thinking this through, Faker said with a heavy heart, "Top lane is controlling the lane, we can't gank them anymore, ignore them. Wanghu, shift your attention to mid and jungle, prepare to invade. Mid and bot lanes have lane priority, you know what to do."

"I understand, Sang-hyeok hyung!"

Peanut died first and left the game. At that moment, he was eating the river crab in the lower half of the map. After finishing the river crab, he didn't say a word and directly rushed into EDG's lower half of the map.

SKT's sudden change in strategy did have an effect. With no lane priority in the mid and bot lanes, Clearlove ran into Kha'Zix who came to invade their jungle right after he finished clearing the blue buff.

Although he was very annoyed, when he saw that Faker in the mid lane had pushed the minion wave towards the tower and into the jungle, and that the Titan in the bottom lane had lost vision, he had no choice but to turn around and leave, abandoning the jungle monsters in the bottom half of the map.

However, the factory manager didn't want to waste jungle monsters. Since he couldn't clear his own bottom half of the jungle, he went to clear the top half of the jungle, since there was a big boss protecting him there.

However, SKT's actions clearly did not stop there. Just as Clearlove entered SKT's upper jungle, Kha'Zix and Nautilus suddenly appeared behind EDG's mid-lane turret.

SKT's objective here is clear: to force Clearlove to come back and protect Sion, and to stop targeting the top lane, otherwise they will tower dive and kill Sion.

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