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Summary: Chapter 51: Playing Games Requires Strategic Thinking~

After a smooth run, Roland decisively chose to return to base to upgrade his equipment. Among junglers, AP junglers are particularly reliant on the speed of their equipment completion in the early game, because these heroes only have one set of skills to clear jungle camps, and after using it, they have to wait for the cooldown, unlike AD heroes whose basic attack damage is already high enough.

As for elemental dragons?

In ranked matches, especially in ranked matches like Roland's where he's just starting to climb the ranks and his rank isn't particularly high, there's really no rush to fight the so-called elemental dragons.

Why?

In daily ranked matches, fighting is more important than strategy, which is an open secret.

Everyone comes here to rank up, but everyone has different reasons for doing so. Some people are just trying to rank up, while others are just playing and ranking up as an afterthought. This naturally increases the likelihood of fighting, which in turn affects everyone on the map.

Q: If fighting is frequent, how can I maximize my gains from it?

Answer: Continuously improve your combat effectiveness.

Take the dragon?

That's enough time for him to farm two groups of jungle monsters. Let whoever wants them take them, as long as it's not the enemy team.

Anti-squat?

No way. I'll gank for you if I can catch up, and if I can't, I can help you farm a lane. Anyway, when it's team fight time, you just need to charge forward and absorb the damage. My AP Shyvana build can handle all the damage for the team.

To reiterate, the Rift ecosystem has changed drastically since Season 11. With the same Mythic item, some heroes gain +10 combat power, while others gain x10. As a result, it's easy to encounter situations where you gank a lane two or three times in the early game, but the player still gets solo killed in the later laning phase.

This is not an exception; it is an instance under a large cardinality.

Instead of trusting your teammates to stay ahead and not squander their advantages, it's better to take control of the team's absolute advantage yourself. This is the true mindset of junglers after Season 11.

After thinking it over, Roland deliberately chose to give up vision and appear in the upper jungle, luring the enemy Graves to the bottom lane to take the dragon.

During this period, the elemental dragons still have a higher priority than the Rift.

The red team's Renekton already had such a big advantage that the opposing team would likely think that Shyvana wouldn't dare to take the Rift Herald, and that they could take the opportunity to steal the dragon. But what Graves didn't expect was that Roland actually deliberately traded with him in this way.

"Remember this, brothers. When playing a jungle carry, avoid controlling the dragon before level nine if possible. The enemy Graves thought he could steal the dragon and make a huge profit, but little did he know he had already lost everything." After marking the attack signal in the mid lane, Roland decisively camped along the river wall and entered the dragon pit to start the Rift Herald.

A single elemental dragon, with only a tiny bit of added attributes, naturally wouldn't pique his interest.

But the Rift Herald is different.

The Rift Herald costs at least 480 gold per instance. How many jungle camps would he have to farm to earn that much?

Control! The vanguard must be controlled!

In this game, his mid-lane teammate was Han Yijie. Although he usually gets outplayed in highlight reels, his rank wasn't high this game, so he didn't run into the same skilled players he usually plays in highlight reels. The opposing mid-laner had already been forced to recall once, giving him a huge advantage in the laning phase.

A battle of two boards? A complete tanking contest?

nonexistent.

This is clearly a combination of two blades, its sharpness can cut through metal.

After successfully securing the Rift Herald, Roland, seeing the enemy mid laner Syndra recalling, decisively marked the mid laner's blue buff and gave it to the mid laner.

The importance of blue for the mid laner goes without saying.

Even though Zed is a champion without a mana bar, the cooldown reduction from the blue buff can still help him a lot. Seeing Roland's mark, Han Yi Zed was naturally happy to take action himself.

Then...

Roland, controlling the Shyvana, pretended to run towards the enemy's F6 camp. Then, seeing Zed almost at the Blue Buff location, he turned around and slipped back to the mid lane, releasing the Rift Herald.

"See that, guys?"

"These two waves, these two waves are called luring the tiger away from the mountain."

"By exchanging the elemental dragon for the Rift Herald, I can both get tower plates and slow down Graves' jungle clearing speed, which is a huge profit for me. Then, by exchanging the blue buff for tower plates, I get all 480 gold, which is an even bigger profit."

"When playing games, the most important thing is strategy. Here, I recommend that you start with introductory games to practice your ability to find opportunities, such as [Poly Bridge] and [Cities: Skylines]. Everyone who has played them says they are great."

Just as Roland was basking in his own cleverness, Zed, who was about to reach the blue buff on the map, suddenly stopped advancing.

A. Blast Fruit, allows for a reverse bounce.

Flash diagonally across the wall and into the riverbed bushes.

He used his double W dash to quickly follow up and appeared not far from the Dragon Girl.

It was at this moment that the Rift Herald rushed to the enemy's mid-lane turret, and a golden light flew out from above the turret, splitting into two beams that landed on Shyvana and Zed.

Roland: ? ? ?

"Ding~"

Almost simultaneously, Han Yijie posted a cat emoji, which seemed incredibly cute, but was actually a sarcastic jab at Roland's ulterior motives.

joke.

When I was getting wrecked like this by the jungler, you hadn't even started your professional career yet.

Holy crap, this Zed player is skilled!

The entire sequence of movements was fluid and the route was clearly planned. I give this a perfect 10.

[I get it now, this is the mutual respect between top players. One was thinking of stealing the enemy mid-lane tower plate, while the other had already predicted it and even planned a reasonable route. I finally understand why I can't climb the ranks.]

[Is this... the same game I'm playing?]

The viewers in the live stream were stunned. As expected of the young master of the e-sports Deyun Society, even when he's playing ranked matches, he's being chased by the show's entertainment value.

Of course, Roland was even more speechless.

Are you fucking serious?

Just to give me a couple hundred gold worth of tower plates, you went out of your way to use Flash to get there? Wouldn't it be better to save that skill and solo kill Syndra for 300 gold next time?

clam?

You're saying you can solo kill without Flash?

Oh, you're really awesome.

Roland, who was furious at not getting to eat the full three-layered tart crust, naturally had to find somewhere else to earn his money back. As for who to find?

Isn't that crocodile on the road quite fat?

Although the country seems to have explicitly banned the consumption of crocodiles, there is a type of farmed crocodile that is permitted for consumption. While it is unclear whether Renekton belongs to which species, the principle of preventing crocodiles from becoming sentient after the founding of the People's Republic of China applies.

Even if he doesn't eat it, it's perfectly reasonable for him to help slay a demon or exorcise a monster, isn't it?

Roland's simple "On the way" sign instantly ignited the fighting spirit of his team's top laner, Sett.

It's here!

It's finally here!

You didn't expect that, did you, you stinky crocodile? My jungler daddy is here!

As a meta-defining champion, Sett was completely unable to accept being pressured by Renekton, who took advantage of the jungler's superior numbers, but he couldn't say anything about it.

Between Shyvana and Graves, Graves is definitely stronger in the early game.

You might criticize the jungler for not coming, but the jungler did actually do something. Every time they went to gank mid or bot, they kept marking the lanes. The reason they didn't gank was simply because the bot lane's vision control was poor.

It has to be said that Roland has a complete grasp of the psychology of top laners.

It's like bribing subordinates.

If you really want to turn a top laner into your devoted follower, you can't just cram him with military training; you have to give him a hard time first, then a sweet treat.

Just like it is now.

Just when Jinfu almost thought the jungler was no longer going to make a difference, giving him hope was a sudden surprise that directly disrupted Jinfu's thinking. He turned into a sycophant, thinking that with such an obedient top laner in front of him, he could easily be commanded to go up and sacrifice himself in the team fight later.

This method is called: using someone else to do the dirty work.

Integration: Chapter 52: It really does seem to be a beast

At this moment, the crocodile in the upstream ecosystem is undoubtedly in a state of extreme expansion.

With a significant early-game advantage, multiple turret plates, and an experience lead, any top laner would likely think they're invincible across the entire map. In terms of damage, Shyvana and Sett would definitely be able to overwhelm Renekton.

But the main point is... AP Shyvana is squishy. (Book club: www.yityi.com)

Even a crocodile with an even advantage dares to take on two opponents at once, so why would he, with his superior crocodile advantage, be afraid of two opponents?

nonexistent.

If the enemy Shyvana dares to come, Renekton is confident he can immediately retaliate with a burst of damage, making Shyvana understand that this top lane isn't a place anyone can just gank. Seeing the enemy Renekton pushing the lane despite having no vision, Roland quickly understood his intentions.

This guy definitely didn't check his own equipment build; he just thought he was easy to bully.

Top laners are mostly like that.

[They still dare to bet on this? This crocodile must have something wrong with his thinking; he's got some nerve.]

Wait, does Crocodile have something called X-pill?

[There really is such a thing, a little-known fact: In medieval Europe, women wore crocodile testicles hanging from their thighs while working, supposedly as a form of contraception.]

[What the hell is this contraception?]

Although the art style was a bit outrageous, the crocodile's push forward was undoubtedly a death sentence for himself. Seeing this, Roland didn't even bother to circle around and directly used his R skill.

A loving hug [Ultimate skill pounce] + Burning Desire [W skill activated] + Ice and Fire Dual Triumph [E skill activated in Frost Dragon Girl state] + Flying Dragon Cloud Piercing Hand [Q skill activated, basic attack]

There was no skill involved; it was all instinct.

A set of skills can be mastered by simply mashing the keyboard, requiring absolutely no brainpower.

The advantage of heroes who are released early is that their skill mechanics are generally simple, without any overly complicated mechanisms. Although their skill ceiling is low, their skill floor is ridiculously high, making them easy to play.

One combo of skills brought the crocodile down to half health.

Of course, the crocodile wasn't worried.

Unleash your ultimate skill, transform, and double the rate at which you gain rage when your health is below half.

With half health and full rage, the crocodile became the most dazzling figure on the field. Before the opposing Sett could get close enough, the crocodile unleashed a combo on Shyvana, attempting to instantly kill her.

Anyway, AP Shyvana is no different from a squishy champion; under normal circumstances, you can kill her instantly and still have a chance to escape.

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