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Both sides used standard bans.
One round of PICK:
TES: Ezreal, Graves, Nautilus
BLG: Kai'Sa, Lee Sin, Nami
Second round of bans: Galio, Ornn, Zoe, and Aatrox were all banned.
Second round of PICK:
BLG: Monkey, Ryze
TES: Kled, Clockwerk
TES: Top lane Kled, Jungle Graves, Mid lane Orianna, Bot lane Ezreal + Nautilus
BLG: Top lane Wukong, Jungle Lee Sin, Mid lane Ryze, Bot lane Kai'Sa + Nami
Judging from their lineups, TES is determined to go for the late game, and BLG's lineup confirms their idea: pick a soft support and a hard support, then pick two strong mid-jungle roamers to relentlessly gank the bottom lane.
The moment they saw EZ, the entire BLG team was already cheering with joy.
Is JKL's Ezreal strong?
Very powerful.
However, his Ezreal tends to give away opportunities, resulting in numerous deaths, a common problem among Ezreal players.
EZ seems like a champion who can play defensively in lane, but that's precisely the problem. Because of his agile E skill, most EZ players tend to jump into the enemy's face like crazy, which actually gives the opponent an opportunity.
In this game, they felt they had already secured their early advantage.
After changing their heroes, just as the BLG team was about to enter the game with victorious eyes, the sharp-eyed FoFo suddenly noticed something very scary.
"Why... is the enemy support's name on the fourth floor?"
"Huh?" X4
When the BLG team looked up at the screen again, they saw that EZ and Nautilus's IDs had been switched.
In this match, TES pulled off another surprise: Roland as AD and JKL as support, creating a truly unexpected and delightful play.
Upon seeing this, the entire BLG team was completely dumbfounded.
Of course, they weren't the only ones who noticed this scene; some sharp-eyed viewers in the live chat noticed something was amiss early on.
[Holy crap!? Another stunt?]
With a 100% win rate AD carry paired with a 100% win rate support, TES really went all out in this game (doge).
Holy crap, can you even play like this in professional matches?
Why not? One player on the team next door has played all five positions.
The practice of switching positions on the spot, which used to seem like a trivial matter, has undergone a dramatic change because of the appearance of one person. Yes, I'm talking about Xiao Dongbei.
With this Trail Blazer in the game, and JKL and Roland having never lost since switching positions, everything that happened seems surprising yet also quite normal.
The only one who was furious was the white crescent moon squatting on the toilet.
See, isn't everything just perfect?
Enter the game.
In this game, neither side had any particularly strong early-game champions, so they started normally. Considering that the bot lane consisted of Ezreal and Nautilus, Karsa naturally chose to abandon the bot lane again in the early game.
"Speaking of which, you're not going to be as ruthless with Ezreal this time as you were last time, are you?" Recalling Roland's two AD games last time, Karsa felt a slight pain in his kidneys.
That game looked like the AD carry built tanky and baited out skills, which was a huge success.
In reality, those team fights were won by the top, mid, and jungle players risking their lives to deal damage. If EZ goes for a full tank build this time, they might not be able to withstand it.
"Don't worry, I am a man of chivalrous virtues, how could I do such a despicable thing?" Roland patted his chest as he replied to his teammate.
This time, the situation is completely different from the last time.
Last time, it was a battle-hardened resolve, a desperate act of self-sacrifice.
This time, they just need to maintain stability; they're not going to be so ruthless.
Roland's idea was simple: EZ.
Open the shopkeeper's inventory, see which item is blue, and buy that one. EZ has always been like this, buying items of the same color like crazy.
Blue EZ, Purple EZ, Yellow EZ, Green EZ, Red EZ, Rainbow EZ.
There are six different Ezreal builds to choose from. To put it nicely, that's called flexible item builds. To put it bluntly, it's basically an Eevee that can be used for anything.
As for the core gameplay, it's all the same: a good Ezreal is one who can land his skills on the target.
With this philosophy in mind, Roland began his third spring as a professional AD carry.
Integration: Chapter Thirty-Four: The City is Full of Tricks, and the Countryside is Trickled Too
First, let's be clear: the most reasonable scenario for a marksman/support swap in professional games in recent years was only during Season 10.
The first version is a mid-jungle version, with the mid laner serving as a support for the jungler, mainly showcasing the role of supporting the jungle.
Secondly, the ADCs in S10 are really useless.
Don't be fooled by the fact that one or two people might seem like they're just playing a game of strategy online, like you being greedy and I'm using basic attacks while I'm blocking your skills. In a real team fight, they'd just be cannon fodder in a battle of gods.
Imagine if warriors and assassins had higher income from your equipment and could consistently out-level you by two or three levels in lane. What significant impact could an ADC with both lower experience and gold have on the battlefield in Season 10?
No, unless it's a few AD carries who explode after getting kills early on, like Draven and Kalista. Otherwise, the difference isn't that big.
Have you ever seen a 9/0 AD carry get solo killed by a 0/9 fighter?
You might not believe it, but this kind of scene is commonplace in ranked matches during Season 10.
Secondly, this playstyle is not suitable for playing against strong teams.
Playing against BLG is alright; apart from FoFo, the others are just so-so, easy to bully. If it were someone like SMLZ in the bot lane, would they still dare to play like this? They'd probably get their heads smashed to pieces.
Finally, and most importantly, JKL is skilled at playing support, and his skill level is quite good. Don't forget that he even taught Roland how to play support.
This is another advantage of top-tier AD carries; they know when and what the support should do to make their AD carry feel incredibly comfortable. Especially since JKL has been an AD carry for several years, having been carried by Blue Brother, he has even reached the point where he can confidently say he doesn't need to use his brain when playing bot lane with a Challenger streamer he's never queued with before.
What does it mean to have a 100% win rate as a support player throughout their career?
The value of this is absolutely genuine.
Based on the above points, and also to avoid extra practice together in the evening, the entire TES team made a last-minute decision to switch roles between support and bot lane. Roland has a particularly keen sense of positioning and is also quite timid. Proficiency is secondary; it's just about using Q to poke and harass – anyone can do that.
In the early laning phase against the long-range Kai'Sa + Nami combo, Roland and JKL definitely needed to push the minion wave. When the three front-line minions were low on health, JKL immediately charged forward and used his E skill. The surging Tidehunter took down the melee minions while simultaneously pulling himself back.
Obviously, the opposing bot lane duo wouldn't let this opportunity pass. They were already an advantageous combination, so if they could get close to the opponent, they would definitely use their skills.
The hate mechanism immediately activates upon this attack.
Our minions started attacking the enemy hero, but the enemy minions lost their target because the Titan turned around and went into the bush, so they started attacking our minions instead.
This way, the minion wave will definitely push forward. As long as Roland and Ah Shui can hold the wave back slightly, they can keep it firmly in front of the tower for a few minutes. After all, if the jungler doesn't reveal their position and their own support is a Titan, the two squishy enemies won't dare to push the lane too openly.
"I'm really messing up this game, Xuanjun Kage is carrying me."
"You wish! You really think you're the only one who can get by? If the guys have to work extra hours because of you tonight, all the late-night snacks this week are yours."
???
"No, why are you bunch of millionaires eyeing the coins in my little wallet? Leave the kid alone."
"We'd like to let you go, but you don't want to let us go."
Of all the members of the TES club, you're the most unpredictable. If we don't put some pressure on you, who knows what kind of play you'll have? Karsa is really afraid that you'll pull off some kind of AD initiation or something, which would be truly outrageous.
With the bottom lane secured and no longer a concern, Karsa's objective for this game was extremely clear: gank the top lane and invade the jungle.
Let's leave the middle lane aside for now.
With BLG's top laner Kingen, I don't believe that Flandre can't handle him. This guy is quite the show-off in the top lane. When he first came to LPL, the internet was flooded with articles saying things like "One of the most underrated Korean imports in the LPL transfer period".
Then, after a season, it turned out to be a CJB (Critical Junk).
If the jungler doesn't come, I'll definitely crash and burn; if the jungler does come, I can't take off.
A Korean Challenger player, a veteran Renekton, yet he couldn't even accurately estimate Renekton's damage and got solo killed by him; since the start of the World Summer Split, he has only won once in all the matches he's played.
He was repeatedly tower-dived and killed; ADD was more skilled than him.
After a season of poor performance, he came out with the statement: "I only came to the LPL for the money."
It has to be said that he has truly mastered the secret to wealth. After a year of slacking off, he will return to the LCK as a qualified top laner.
With an advantage in the top lane, effective mid-lane skirmishes, and the ability to relentlessly pursue the enemy in the jungle, the game's rhythm is already quite clear. Meanwhile, BLG's jungler is also struggling with the game's tempo, but his concern isn't about winning in lane, but rather the fact that the enemy bot lane duo isn't playing aggressively at all.
That's too stable!
That's seriously too conservative.
BLG, having planned their tactics in advance, continued to execute their strategies as usual, even after TES changed their bot and support players. BLG's jungler (whose name is too difficult to type, but it's not Guohao) farmed from top to bottom this game, aiming to push the lane back at level three to see if there was an opportunity to gank.
However... the enemy bot lane duo just can't be engaged.
As we all know, professional Ezreal players' E skill is actually quite easy to bait out.
If you accidentally hit him with his W skill, and then retreat after the minion wave is cleared by the tower, 70% of professional players will use their E skill to jump out and trigger the W passive, followed by their Q skill and damage.
But Roland did not.
He didn't even bother to use his W skill, instead focusing his limited mana on endless Q minions, completely oblivious to the existence of the opposing bot lane duo.
JKL, needless to say, was flashing icons like crazy in the bottom lane.
Hey~ I'm not going to use my hook, what can you do about it?
Both players have a playstyle that completely reverses itself when their positions are switched, making them an impeccable turtle-style duo. Although Ah Shui still uses the Q skill the same way, damn it, he's a Titan.
The Titan's W skill shield hasn't been nerfed yet.
With a single skill activation, he can block most of Nami's damage without flinching.
"How about it? Can you trick them out?"
"No, the other side is too stable. No matter how I try to bait them, they won't engage." BLG's bot lane AD was starting to sweat. When he watched RW vs. TES, he thought Zhang Wuji was nothing special, unable to even break through a support who had switched to AD.
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